AC Grayling versus Michael
Hofmann: Booker Prize chairman goes to war with critic over scathing review
Booker
Prize chairman AC Grayling felt Michael Hofmann's review of 'The Narrow Road to
the Deep North' by Richard Flanagan was too harsh
arts
correspondent - The Independent
Thursday
29 January 2015
It was
lauded by almost every reviewer, and won the coveted Booker Prize for fiction.
But Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North is now at the
centre of a bitter literary spat, after a venomous review in the London Review
of Books sparked an equally poisonous response from the chairman of the Booker
Prize panel.
The reviewer in question, poet and critic Michael Hofmann, set about
dismantling Flanagan’s novel over 2,500 words. He dismissed the work as
“half-hearted” and “all bite and no chew”, and, quoting Oscar Wilde, said it
would require a “heart of stone to read without laughing”.
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