About this event

Join us for a graduate student conference exploring the Booker Prize, which since its founding in 1969 has remained the most significant novel prize outside of the us. The Booker seeks to identify "The best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland." winning the prize ensures a significant sales bump, instant literary celebrity, and unimaginable vitriol from the supporters of other finalists! Part of the enduring significance of the Booker is just how much drama it generates: it's broadcast on live television, taken up by sports betting companies (bookies) with odds on each short-listed title, and passionately debated for years-even decades-after the fact.

Papers will consider intertextuality, diversity and representation, nostalgia, economics, politics, and aesthetic criteria in and around the Booker Prize.

Additional information

• Attendance type: In person
• Cost: Free
• Event type: Arts & Culture, Lectures & Seminars, Conferences & Symposiums