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Podcast: The TLS Podcast
Episode: Everyone's a winner โ a bonus episode
Description: Literary prizes come in more shapes and sizes than ever before: we have prizes that echo the Man Booker, and prizes that set out not to be the Man Booker; we have prizes for first novels, second novels, crime novels that donโt feature violence against women, and, more satirically, a prize for โbad sex in fictionโ. Why do we need so many? Do we need them at all? And how do prizes work not only for writers but for those people who do all the reading (and sometimes arguing): the judges? The TLS's Michael Caines chairs a lively discussion betwee...