SIVACRACY.NET: I'm Going To Buy All of Her Books, and Maybe Even Several Copies of Each

Booker winner Desai credits Bush for award:

"Indian novelist Kiran Desai said she may never have won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, had George W. Bush not been U.S. president -- as he put her off becoming an American citizen.

"The Man Booker Prize is open only to British and Commonwealth citizens and Indian-born Desai has yet to apply for a U.S. passport, although she has lived in New York for 20 years.

"George Bush won once and he won the second time and I couldn't bring myself to (apply)," Desai said late last month in an interview in Toronto as she voiced her disapproval of the president's foreign policy.

"So I really owe George Bush my Booker, in an odd way. It's really very funny."

Read the entire article here. Via Arse Poetica.

Comments

i am glad to at least someone has gotten something from bush besides halaburtin. thanks for your support ann

Posted by: bobc | November 19, 2006 01:33 PM

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