The novel is dead, long live the novel

Keri Hulme joins a list of postcolonial booker people ratttling the bones of the form: “The years the Booker Prize doesn’t go to an English novel the winning book tends to be an interesting one. The most interesting books have been by a Nigerian (Ben Okri), a Maori (Keri Hulme), two Indians (Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy), a Trinidadian (VS Naipaul) and a Canadian (Margaret Atwood).