Lloyd Jones pipped at the post
An update to our earlier announcement of Lloyd Jones’ placement on the Booker Prize shortlist …
Jones’ Mr Pip has missed out on the prize, which was awarded to Irish author Anne Enright for her family epic, The Gathering. While it missed out on the top spot, Mr Pip is still widely touted as the most internationally successful New Zealand book EVER, being published worldwide to critical and popular acclaim. It has also won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the Montana New Zealand Prize for best fiction this year.
We don’t seem to be winning much lately, but this is still a great success for Lloyd Jones (and the rest of us who hang on his literary coat-tails).
Keri Hulme’s the bone people remains the only New Zealand book to win the prestigious Booker Prize.
