Lost Man Booker at Oxford Literary Festival

Judges to announce shortlist at exclusive event

3 February 2010

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival has announced a special event to exclusively announce the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist. The Lost Man Booker is a one-off prize to honour the books which missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970. In 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became - as it is today - a prize for the best novel of the year of publication. As a result a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell through the net.

Join the judges - the ITN newsreader Katie Derham, poet and novelist Tobias Hill and journalist and critic Rachel Cooke - for the exclusive shortlist announcement, and a discussion on each of the six books, before casting your vote for the winner here via the Man Booker Prize website.

The event will take place at the Christ Church Marquee, Oxford on 25th March 2010 at 2pm. Tickets are £10 and booking details for the event are available at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.  

More more of the Lost Man Booker prize read the press release in our Media Centre. 

 

 

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