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Originally Posted by Authorfriendly
I always found the Booker more credible, and more readable as well
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Over two billion people are potentially eligible for the Booker -- everyone in the British commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. And every English language novel they write can compete.
Only about 300 million people (population of the US) can potentially compete for the Pulitizer fiction award, and only their novels concerning American life are seriously eligible. Maybe our neck of the woods isn't as interesting.
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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I've never paid much attention to the Pulitzer. I didn't even know they had a fiction category. I thought it was solely for reporting.
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And not only you.
The Pulitzer fiction award was never such a big deal as the Booker is in Britain. The average US reader of serious novels, however defined, is more likely to know the winners of last year's World Series and Super Bowl than of last year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and National Book Award. (I say this as someone who knows none of the four
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