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Jan. 2nd, 2006 11:23 amThe Sunday Times January 01, 2006
Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile
Jonathan Calvert and Will Iredale
THEY can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors. One of the books considered unworthy by the publishing industry was by V S Naipaul, one of Britain’s greatest living writers, who won the Nobel prize for literature.
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Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile
Jonathan Calvert and Will Iredale
THEY can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors. One of the books considered unworthy by the publishing industry was by V S Naipaul, one of Britain’s greatest living writers, who won the Nobel prize for literature.
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