Publishers' fertility rite: annual literary prizesEntr'acte

International Herald Tribune | October 28, 2004| | Copyright

Alan Riding
International Herald Tribune
10-28-2004
Every self-respecting tribe has its fertility dance and, in the literary world, this takes place around the temple of annual book prizes. When the oracle speaks, authors are rewarded for years of lonely creativity, their novels lifted from semi-obscurity, their life stories revisited, their ever-fragile egos bolstered and, more crucially, sales of their books are magically multiplied. Yet while the laureates come away with applause and a check, the true promoters and beneficiaries of this ritual are others. With book sales falling almost ...

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