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Old 10-17-2019, 09:40 AM   #44
murraypaul
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I have no way of actually checking to see what award moves the needle on sales the most, which is why I said "I suspect". The suspicion is based on the observation that I remember seeing a lot more books with the blurb "Pulizter prize winner" or "Newbury prize winner" among others, that I see "Nobel prize winner". Maybe it's valid, maybe it isn't.
If randomly asked to name a prize related to books/writing, I'd come up with Booker, Pulitzer, Hugo and Nebula before I thought of Nobel.
(The first is probably because I'm British, and the last two because I read a lot of Sci-Fi.)
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