Rebecca West was a Booker prize judge the first two years it was handed out!
There were perhaps 60 books, which seemed a lot, though modern judges are said to read twice as many. Getting through the 60 was made easier by our not daring to take on Dame Rebecca. "Miss Murdoch writes good and bad novels in alternate years," she said. "This is a bad year." Muriel Spark: "clever but too playful." And out they went.
40 years of Booker prize judges dish the dirt
A bang, not a whimper
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