On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Peter Riley wrote:
> Some of us thought prizes
> like that might have been instituted with the idea of helping authors:
> buying them time to write, new word-processors, research trips, inkwells
> etc., rather than gold-plated tombs.
- but none of us were surprised. Loved the judging panel, though - so
close to the coal face in assessing cutting edge literature:
Raymond Seitz (ex-US Ambassador to Britain) (Chairman)
Rosie Boycott (Express)
Floella Benjamin (ex-Playschool)
Magnus Magnusson (ex-Mastermind)
Kirstie Young (ex-Channel Five News)
Hardly surprising they went for an ex-poet, huh?
The Chairman said: "In the end we simply asked ourselves which single book
would we most want to take to the top of a mountain." It's an interesting
criterion, and one we may wish to appropriate for some of those other
tricky decisions we have to make in life...
R
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