Whats So Special About the Booker Prize?
Why has the TurboBookSnob been devouring book after book by Booker Prize finalists and winners for the past two years? What would possess someone to launch a website devoted to a British literature prize? Literature prizes seem to be a “dime a dozen” these days. Britain has the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Guardian Prize for Fiction, and of course, the Booker Prize. The United States now boasts the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Book Critics’ Circle Award. On a worldwide scale, there is the Nobel Prize for Literature, honoring an author’s lifetime works, rather than a specific novel. If you follow modern literature, it seems as if a new prize appears every time you turn around. The TurboBookSnob could make the argument that the Booker Prize is special because not only is it perhaps the most prestigious prize awarded for a specific novel in existence today, but also it is the most widely followed (more so than the Pulitzer Prize in the United States). In the
