{"id":7141,"date":"2007-10-17T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:26:19","slug":"the-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7141","title":{"rendered":"Anne Enright Has Won the Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/manbooker2007\/story\/0,,2192570,00.html\">Details here.<\/a>  It is quite an upset considering the competition and although I have not read any of her stuff (YET) &#8211; she is next on my list after I finish <i>Bleak House<\/i>.  <\/p>\n<p>I love literary upsets, it&#8217;s one of my favorite spectator sports &#8230; and there&#8217;s something about Enright&#8217;s writing and her persona that I really DIG &#8230; and that I also find a little bit <i>frightening<\/i> (most good writers frighten me a bit) &#8211; so I&#8217;m happy for her.  I also really liked what she said about depression in that first link.  Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0802170390&#038;asins=0802170390&#038;linkId=PQ2BJLNGU33DETOC&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details here. It is quite an upset considering the competition and although I have not read any of her stuff (YET) &#8211; she is next on my list after I finish Bleak House. I love literary upsets, it&#8217;s one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103310,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions\/103310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}