Man Booker website relaunches
New site features an online literary magazine, interactive archive and news section
5 August 2007
The Man Booker Prize website relaunches today with several major new sections to entice and engage its readers. The site carries a brand-new online literary magazine called Perspective which will include exclusive features from the world’s leading writers and literary figures. Perspective will also include interviews with Man Booker Prize winners and nominees as well as reader competitions. The launch edition of Perspective features an exclusive interview with Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006, fresh from her recent author tour in South Africa. Readers also have the chance to win a copy of her award-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss.
General information about the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and more about this year’s prize (including a blog from this year’s Chair of Judges, Howard Davies) can be found in the Prize section. This section also contains an extended archive stretching back to when the prize began in 1969, and a dedicated resource area for librarians.
The news section will be breaking the latest stories about the prize and other literary news. It will also contain a dedicated media centre for journalists including recent and archived press releases, images and other media resources.
Anyone wishing to have their say can join in a number of related discussions in the new debate forum. The Man Booker Prize shortlist is announced on 6 September 2007 when the shortlist forum will open for public discussion on each of the six shortlisted titles.
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