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One of several parties at the Frankfurter Hof Hotel last night was the Berlin Verlag party, where many publishing types gathered (including the Frankfurt Fellows, who seem to be at all the parties) to hear the announcement of this year’s Man Booker Prize. The Man Booker people, co-sponsors of the party, had arranged for the live announcement by the BBC to be shown on large TV screens dotted around the ornate and tightly packed hospitality room.
After a few false alarms, the announcement was finally made and the book industry could wallow in about ten seconds of glorious televised coverage before the BBC went back to covering the global financial crisis, and then showed a video of Tom Jones.
Still, this was sufficiently long to discover that Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger had won the £50,000 award, becoming the fourth Indian writer (not counting V S Naipaul), and the fourth debutant novelist, to win the award.
Tags: Fellows, Frankfurter Hof, Man Booker Prize
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