Old Blues Chapter and Verse | Call for 2020 Booktube Prize Judges + a Chatty Rant @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Robert, the architect of the Booktube Prize, needs judges for next year, and I encourage all of you to consider throwing your hat in the ring to be among those who shape the results in 2020. Check out his video explaining the process and how to sign up here:

youtube.com/watch?v=DITPsxWYtxA&t=737s

The announcement video for this year's ill-advised double Booker Prize:

youtube.com/watch?v=bgGTJgIO0Uc

I can't find the column, written by Andrew Motion, chair of the 2010 Booker Prize judging committee, in which he revealed the neck-and-neck finish between Peter Carey and the eventual winner, Howard Jacobson, but here is an article that mentions it having been a two-horse race (another article I found stated it had been a 3-2 split between the judges, in favor of The Finkler Question):

standard.co.uk/news/only-tax-breaks-can-save-the-arts-says-poet-sir-andrew-motion-6524011.html

Here is a magnificent article from 2009 in which one judge from each year of the prize's then 40-year history elaborated on what went on behind-the-scenes:

theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/06/bookerprize.40years

Books mentioned or discussed in this video:

- Holiday by Stanley Middleton
- The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

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