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Could A Crime Novel Ever Win The Booker Prize?

First Posted: 06/25/10 11:15 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:55 PM ET

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Literary awards have been one of the last bastions of high culture, but in the week when the crime writer Peter Temple took Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin award, Alison Flood examines whether a detective novel could ever win the Booker

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Literary awards have been one of the last bastions of high culture, but in the week when the crime writer Peter Temple took Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin award, Alison Flood exami...
Literary awards have been one of the last bastions of high culture, but in the week when the crime writer Peter Temple took Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin award, Alison Flood exami...
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niceguysneverfinish
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10:45 AM on 06/26/2010
They read the same things. They think alike. They cover all the bases. Sure... a crime book could win it....Joseph Hanson was better than all of them... but he is not in print.

So you see they don't really know in the first place.
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raven119
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11:28 AM on 06/25/2010
There are some great writers who have been classified as mystery writers, Peter Temple among them. The snobbery that some have shown to the genre over the years is beginning to wane, and top flight writers are being discovered after years of obscurity.

The best place to find the best writers is at a store that specializes in mysteries; once you discover works by Helen Tursten, Denise Mina, Peter Lovesey, Karin Alvetgen, Ian Rankin, Ross Thomas, Jo Nesbo, John Harvey, Hakan Nesser, Louise Penny, Leonardo Padura and so many of the others, you'll wonder how you could have been missing out on so much for so long. If yon't have a mystery shop near you, the second best place is an independent bookstore. Both make it their business to know books rather than trends, to know quality rather than quantity.
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