Things you get for free
Yesterday Australian poet Les Murray was spied in a Melbourne cafe. (He was reading and drinking a blood orange soft drink.) So I guessed he hadn’t won the Nobel Prize for Literature otherwise he would have been in Stockholm drinking champagne. It is Herta Muller who has won the Nobel Prize this year. Herta, who? Hey, the Nobel Prize isn’t a popularity contest.
But the Inky Awards are. And now the shortlist is out. So exercise your voting rights now. Especially if you are under the age of 20. We’ve expanded the shortlist to five books in each category and come up with our best list ever.
And we have the 2009 shortlist printed on special Inky bookmarks. Contact us now and we will send them to you. Free.
