June 28, 2002

Coming to Blows Over the Booker Prize

By ELAINE SHOWALTER

In addition to the Jubilee and the World Cup to keep the media busy here, now there's a juicy literary feud. Since 1968, the Booker Prize has been the most important literary award in Britain and the Commonwealth. Bestowed each fall to a novel selected by a panel of judges including academics, novelists, journalists, and politicians, the prize is always the subject of media speculation, leaks, gossip, and bets -- a literary grand derby with a final banquet televised by the BBC, with

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