Lydia Davis är Man Bookers val!
”I was recently denied a writing prize because they said I was lazy.” runs one of Lydia Davis’s two-sentence short stories. Well not any more. Davis has just been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her inventive, carefully-crafted and hard to categorise works saw off the challenge from nine other contenders from around the world. The judges – Professor Sir Christopher Ricks, Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks – recognised that crafting spare, philosophical and original works, however short, is not for the lazy at all but takes time, skill and effort.
Jag skrev det där ordet på pappret, men han lade till apostrofen.
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