This makes sense.
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Michael Peverett
Hi Tristan, I guess I'm pretty indifferent on the topic of awards. The governing bodies of these things can award who they like for all I care. I can't take them seriously as acts of literary criticism. Tthe motivations behind individual awards often have less to do with the recipient than with preserving and cultivating the award's own reputation for relevance, contemporaneity, capacity to surprise, etc, as well as courting controversy in the interests of generating debate (but not out of genuine desire to open up debate, just to increase the award's own media profile). The game is to get us, the members of the public, arguing about whether the current recipient "deserved" the award or not. Why indulge them, why play that media game?
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