SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON FICTION
The shortlist of six titles has been announced in London overnight.
The Samuel Johnson Prize is rated as one of the world's most prestigious prizes for non-fiction writing with the winner receiving 30,000 pounds and each finalist 2,500 pounds.
It was founded in 1999 by an anonymous donation and is managed by BBC 4.
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Hi Graham
peaking of Sam J ... have you seen this totally marvelous site about Samuel Pepys, the diarist.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/
I adore this site - first up it takes a real classic of english lit - and then uses the web to give us an entry a day. Second, and this is the piece that does it for me every time, all the annotations embedded in the text are compiled by online scholars and enthsiasts who have something to add, either about the context of the entry, or, more often, about the peole, places, and incidents mentioned in the text.
I think it is such a great use of the web - and an inspiration to all of us.
so i guess the big question is what New Zealand classics could we put on line which could benefit from all this - starting with , say Katherine Mansfield short stories, Cook. or Banks journals, and a whole host of other stuff.
Your readers might like to suggest some more - then we might even build one!!
keep the faith .... p.
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