October 30, 2003

clearing up the confusion

The shortlist for the Guardian First Book award has been announced. Earlier this week I had wondered why they deemed it a longlist when it had only five titles on it, but I can see that they kept two separate lists for fiction and non-fiction and then conflated them for the shortlist, so that Monica Ali's and DBC Pierre's novels will compete against histories of the Himalayas and others.

posted by Laila Lalami at 02:00 PM