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Hilary Mantel ‘snub’ tilts Booker Prize into culture wars – Sydney Morning Herald
This week’s Booker Prize shortlist was the most diverse in its history, leading detractors to suggest the prize had become “politicised”.
“Each of us makes judgments through the prism of who we are and what we have learnt or internalised. That’s why diversity has always been important. Diversity is reality,” she told The Guardian. “The scope of this year’s books has allowed us to luxuriate in skilful storytelling and be surprised by what unheard voices have to articulate.”
On Twitter, Bernardine Evaristo, who last year was named joint winner of the prize with Margaret Atwood, praised the panel’s decision as a “groundbreaking shor…
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