Comments on: Orange You Glad?

By: Amita Parashar

Amita Parashar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:47:37 +0000

Congrats and so well-deserved!

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:18:33 +0000

Shaabaash!

By: brown man

brown man — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:27:48 +0000

12 Â· Mr. X said

What are your thoughts on this sort of criticism?

Why not have a women only orange prize when you have the Man Booker prize?

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:54:44 +0000

onparkstreet: bygones. Many thanks to you and all the others for the kind messages.

To Mr. X, I guess that’s the prerogative of those authors. I don’t particularly agree with them.

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/

By: onparkstreet

onparkstreet — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:31:06 +0000

I stand by my many errors in the posts above, too, it wouldn’t be a MD/OPS post if it didn’t have grammatical and spelling errors, now would it?

By: onparkstreet

onparkstreet — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:28:39 +0000

That link, Mr. X, mentions Anita Brookner, who I mention ALL THE TIME, because I like unfashionable things, as declining to have her novels entered into the competition. Whatevs.

My point is: those of you who think that AB's books are just dreary neurotic priviledged WW in London, well. They could be read as a kind of 'outsider' immigrant-y fiction, too, as many of the characters are second Jewish gen emigres from Eastern Europe to England.

I stand by my unfashionable assessments!

*For a third time, because I was a jerk before, congrats VV.

By: onparkstreet

onparkstreet — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:24:19 +0000

How odd....

So, I link post cover of an Orange prize winning book on my blog a few days back (because it's Rose Tremain and it's photo of a rainy day viewed through a rainy window and I like it) and then I come here.....and one of the SM'ers is nominated for the same prize.

Well, good for you V.V.! (I owe you, like, a ton of apologies because I was so grumpy on another post of yours and kept arguing with you until ANNA shamed me into apologizing).

Cool. Again, congrats.

*Rose Tremain's book is also about the immigrant experience, I think, The Road Home. Eastern European into London, I think.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:59:53 +0000

Congratulations VV and a question*: What are your thoughts on this sort of criticism?

*I sincerely hope this doesnâ€™t lead to grrrr women comments.

By: ShallowThinker

ShallowThinker — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:41:00 +0000

I was about to make a comment about the lack of Indian male authors and my brain started working and I remembered that this is a list for a women’s award.

By: Janeofalltrades

Janeofalltrades — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:59:29 +0000

That’s fantastic. Congratulations Sugi.