How Should We Judge Book Awards? A Novel Approach Gives Prizes a Boost
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ON THE TRAIN to Dundee last week, the author Ian Rankin was quietly scathing about your average book award. "Many of these prizes will give you an engraved glass vase from Caithness, or you might get a piece in the newspaper, but a piece of glass doesn't get you published," he said.
But Rankin made an exception for the Dundee Book Prize, of which he was one of three judges. The award didn't simply offer a GBP 6,000 cheque. The prize, for an unpublished novel, pledged to publish the three manuscripts which made it on to the final shortlist. It then threw open the choice between the finalists to the readers of 19 book clubs across Scotland.See the full content of this document
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How Should We Judge Book Awards? A Novel Approach Gives Prizes a Boost
The award was introduced three years ago for "new writing about Dundee", though the prize was opened out last year to any unpublished novel from anywhere. There is much to be said for the way the...
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