October 7, 2005

Eyes on the Prizes

By JAY PARINI

Once again it's Booker time in Britain. I'm referring to the Man Booker Prize, bestowed on one lucky novelist each October at a banquet watched by almost a million people on prime-time national television. The prize -- now in its 37th year, and to be announced next week -- almost invariably installs the winner in the literary pantheon, where he or she will join the lofty ranks of such authors as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, and Arundhati

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