Comments on: Another award Ian McEwan won’t be winning… http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/ SinĂ©ad Gleeson's blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:28:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Kevin http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/#comment-112723 Kevin Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:39:21 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/#comment-112723 Wouldn't go that far, Sinead. The heavyweight men are beginning to give up their respective ghosts, but most of them still stand. Roth's latest was better than most critics made it out to be, Coetzee's Bad Year is wonderful and John Banville's venture into Crime Fiction has been more than just interesting. He's also in the midst of writing a 15th novel under his own name. Give it 10 or 20 years though. There are far fewer <i>emerging</i> male writers, I think. Wouldn’t go that far, Sinead. The heavyweight men are beginning to give up their respective ghosts, but most of them still stand. Roth’s latest was better than most critics made it out to be, Coetzee’s Bad Year is wonderful and John Banville’s venture into Crime Fiction has been more than just interesting. He’s also in the midst of writing a 15th novel under his own name.

Give it 10 or 20 years though. There are far fewer emerging male writers, I think.

]]> By: sang http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/#comment-111492 sang Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:13:06 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/#comment-111492 ....curiousity. ….curiousity.

]]> By: Sinead http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/#comment-111254 Sinead Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:58:42 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/11/22/another-award-ian-mcewan-wont-be-winning/#comment-111254 JC, it's hard to say. The only people I actually physically know in a have-a-cup-of-coffee-with who've recently got book deals are men. Maybe the bias is just with these prizes? Or else we're all imagining it? :) TGWAOF, I think we have polar opposite taste in books. :) AL Kennedy is an amazing writer, though. A friend told me last night she has a copy of an Auster book for me that I haven't read - and is only 100 pages. Happy days. For work at the moment I'm reading the Julia Kelly book (With My Lazy Eye) and - eek - Sophie Dahl's novel. OFTR, you're not far wrong, you know... Sang, a freudian slip on my part as I was talking to someone of the same name yesterday and it must have stuck in my head. My own laptop is in meltdown so wasn't able to fix that until now. Fingers crossed I haven't lost everything on it. :( JC, it’s hard to say. The only people I actually physically know in a have-a-cup-of-coffee-with who’ve recently got book deals are men. Maybe the bias is just with these prizes? Or else we’re all imagining it? :)

TGWAOF, I think we have polar opposite taste in books. :) AL Kennedy is an amazing writer, though. A friend told me last night she has a copy of an Auster book for me that I haven’t read - and is only 100 pages. Happy days.
For work at the moment I’m reading the Julia Kelly book (With My Lazy Eye) and - eek - Sophie Dahl’s novel.

OFTR, you’re not far wrong, you know…

Sang, a freudian slip on my part as I was talking to someone of the same name yesterday and it must have stuck in my head. My own laptop is in meltdown so wasn’t able to fix that until now. Fingers crossed I haven’t lost everything on it. :(

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