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Literary prizes as 'posh bingo'. Plus: writer/rapper Kate Tempest

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How to Choose Judges for Literary Prizes

I'm not sure how you avoid those considerations coming into play unless you're, unless the judging is done blind. I mean, there's another criteria question that comes up - just how you choose the judges. And again, it's not obvious that there are any criteria. There is this suspicion which I touched on in my piece. In fact, I started the piece by telling Nanak, don't about bumping into a judge of another literary prize who actually was Mr John,. We can reveal. Actually, it was Mr John, Mr John Day. The person we were with had a book that was under consideration for the prize I was judging. And who was buying the points? I

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