The Green Carnation Judges Simon Savidge, Lesley Cookman, Paul Magrs and Nick Campbell (Katy Manning not pictured)
A new prize for exceptional work of gay men’s fiction or memoirs has been launched, as a queer alternative tot he Man Booker Prize (before becoming Oscar Wilde inspired, the original name for the prize was to be the ‘Man Fooker Prize’; fortunately the founders decided the idea had legs and smartened up it a bit!).
Judges are Paul Magrs, Nick Campbell, Lesley Cookman, Katy Manning and Simon Savidge.
The judges have revealed their long list, which is:
Generation A by Douglas Coupland (Windmill Books)
Bryant and May Off the Rails by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
Paperboy by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)
God Says No by James Hannaham (McSweeney’s)
London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp (Myriad Editions)
Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin (Doubleday)
Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer (Granta)
Man’s World by Rupert Smith (Arcadia Books)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Tuskar Rock Press)
City Boy by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)
The short list will be announced in exactly two months on November 1 2010.
More details about the prize can be found at http://greencarnationprize.wordpress.com/
If you’re interested in finding out more about the books, all are available from Gay’s the Word in Bloomsbury, and they have Jonathon Kemp reading from his novel on 16 September – details on Facebook.
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