British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1974’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone PeopleThe winner of the 1976 Booker prize was decided on a coin toss, the prize’s former administrator Martyn Goff has revealed.The winner that year was David Storey’s tale of a Yorkshire mining community, Saville. But according to an interview with the late Goff, made public in a new film from the British Library drawing on hundreds of hours of audio interviews about the prize’s history, Storey only won because the judges – novelists Walter Allen and Francis King, and poet Mary Wilson (who was married to PM Harold) – couldn’t agree on a winner. Continue reading…
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