Julian Barnes is a worthy winner
Claire Armistead in the Guardian following Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending picking up the Booker prize:
So, it’s great to see him winning. Those who argue that it’s just another vote for the literary establishment might want to ponder the new force that brevity has in the twittering culture that did so much to promote the tetchiness of this Booker contest. Big novels still dominate the English language novel, so it takes courage to be brief.
I like short novels. I also like that short novels can be given the highest possible recognition.
