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Pop quiz time; Should Zadie Smith take the prize? Should Yann Martel?
2008
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Zadie Smith recently boasted that the three-year-old Willesden Herald short story prize, over which she was judge and jury, would courageously not be awarding this year's prize because all the entries stunk. She also declared her disgust with book prizes, saying most of them a) wouldn't make such a courageous decision and b) they are only 'nominally about literature.' Given this anti-book-award attitude, what should Smith do with the $125,000 or so she's earned from winning the Whitbread First Novel Award 2000, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction? b) A graphic novel version of the book; a hardback children's version; a soft-cover children's version; a hardcover children's version with pictures; a softcover children's version without pictures; an adult version with purple type; a kid's version with red type; a ... Zadie Smith recently boasted that the three-year-old Willesden Herald short story prize, over which she was judge and jury, would courageously not be awarding this year's prize because all the entries stunk. She also declared her disgust with book prizes, saying most of them a) wouldn't make such a courageous decision and b) they are only 'nominally about literature.' Given this anti-book-award attitude, what should Smith do with the $125,000 or so she's earned from winning the Whitbread First Novel Award 2000, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction?
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