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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Reject maal, Booker maal
The Sunday Times reports:
(Link via email from Nikhil Pahwa.)
They can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors.I've always believed that if you write a good book, it'll find its way in the world somehow. Is that a naive perspective? I don't know. But I hope I find out someday.
One of the books considered unworthy by the publishing industry was by VS Naipaul, one of Britain’s greatest living writers, who won the Nobel prize for literature.
The exercise by The Sunday Times draws attention to concerns that the industry has become incapable of spotting genuine literary talent.
Typed manuscripts of the opening chapters of Naipaul’s In a Free State
(Link via email from Nikhil Pahwa.)
