Sorpresas en el Booker
Aunque algunos comentaristas han declarado que la lista de candidatos al Booker no trajo sorpresas, la verdad es que para muchos sí ha sido bastante sorprendente. Y no porque On Chelsea Beach, del siempre favorito Ian McEwan esté entre las candidatas sino porque es el único autor realmente célebre que aparece en la longlist. Y eso que no es un año sin grandes novedades. Se han quedado atrás, por ejemplo: Diary of a Bad Year de J.M. Coetzee, Divisadero de Michael Ondaatje, My Revolutions de Hari Kunzru, The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright, Tomorrow de Graham Swift y The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe (es cierto que algunas de estas novelas aún no han sido puestas a la venta, pero eso no es impedimento para ser candidatas según supe, pues las editoriales siempre mandan con anticipación los ejemplares a la crítica). A cambio de estas ausencias han aparecido en la lista novelas de autores primerizos y de editoriales alternativas. El blog "The Literary Saloon" tiene su propia versión sobre los hechos: todo se trataría de los famosos cupos editoriales.
Dice: "With all the talk about how many/few titles are on the longlist, and who made it and who didn't, and whether the longlist should be published at all commentators again all ignore the Man Booker's fatal flaw: the gross restrictions on the books they're even willing to consider -- which this year amounted to a ludicrous 110 entries (yeah, that's representative of all the best writing in the Commonwealth plus Ireland and Zimbabwe ...). With former winners (Coetzee, Ondaatje, etc.) and recently shortlisted authors all getting a free pass into the competition but each publisher otherwise restricted to two entries (with a few additional ways of slipping a book in) they don't come anywhere close to considering all the books that deserve to at least be in the running. Sure, the longlisting of a title by a tiny new press like Myrmidon Books ("Our first titles were released in the Autumn of 2006") -- The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng -- makes it look like they're willing to consider anything, but in fact this is one of the most closed-off prizes out there, setting entry conditions that leave it ill-equipped to anoint the best book of the year."
Etiquetas: booker, coetzee, ian mc ewan, inglaterra, michael ondaatje, PREMIO, swift
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