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You are going to read an article in which five people from the world of books discuss literary prizes. For questions 1-10, choose from the sections (A-E). The sections may be chosen more than once.
Who Needs Literary Prizes?
Five people from the book world assess whether literary prizes help or harm fiction
The winner: Isadora Quaye, novelist
I am, I suppose, the person least entitled to complain about literary prizes. Before my third novel won, it had sold a little under two thousand copies, and I had quietly applied for a full-time teaching post; another year of near-invisibility and I would have stopped writing altogether. The prize changed that overnight. Sales increased tenfold, translation rights went to twenty countries, and for the first time in my life I could pay the rent from fiction alone. What nobody warns you about is what happens next. For four years I could barely complete a paragraph of the following book. Every sentence seemed to be auditioning for an imaginary panel, and I would abandon perfectly serviceable chapters because they did not sound sufficiently like the work of a prize-winner. I do not say this to elicit sympathy. I say it because the public narrative of prizes, in which talent is identified and duly rewarded, bears little resemblance to my experience of one. Five capable people read a great many books and happened, that year, to agree on mine. Had a different judge been ill, or in a different mood, I would very probably be teaching sixth-formers now. I was lucky, and I try not to confuse luck with merit.
Which contributor admits that the circumstances in which a task was carried out may have affected the fairness of its outcome?
Which contributor argues that the conditions for taking part favour some competitors over others?
Which contributor suggests that recognition can make subsequent creative work more difficult?
Which contributor claims that prizes have influenced the kind of fiction being written in general?
Which contributor reveals that they had been close to giving up their profession?
Which contributor says that the financial benefits of a prize are concentrated on very few books?
Which contributor claims that the chosen book is often the one that provokes least opposition rather than the most enthusiasm?
Which contributor reluctantly accepts that prizes give fiction a public profile it would otherwise lack?
Which contributor observes that some purchasers value a book’s status more than its content?
Which contributor attributes their own success largely to chance?
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