Nieuws: Het ontbreken van Hilary Mantel op de shortlist van de Booker Prize verdeelt twitteraars
Het derde deel van de Wolf Hall-trilogie Hilary Mantel bleek gisteren niet op de shortlist van Book Prize te staan tot ontsteltenis van velen. De inclusieve, nogal Amerikaanse shortlist met maar liefst vier debuten viel niet bij iedereen in de smaak. Ook Nelleke Geel, sinds jaar en dag haar uitgever, kostte het enigszins moeite om te accepteren dat Mantel niet was doorgedrongen tot de laatste zes.
Wij van #teamHilaryMantel feliciteren met de stoom uit onze oren de genomineerden voor de Booker Prize 2020!
— Nelleke Geel (@NellekeGeel) September 15, 2020
Très woke.
— Nelleke Geel (@NellekeGeel) September 15, 2020
Op naar de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur dan maar! #teamHilaryMantel https://t.co/JTCGS7d3jP
— Nelleke Geel (@NellekeGeel) September 15, 2020
I’ve been holding into these emotions for a few days now and I just have to say: I hope Hilary Mantel Zoom crashes the booker ceremony and just takes a gigantic shit for the sheer fucking disrespect
— Christopher (@BookishCauldron) September 16, 2020
Booker prize went bonkers earlier this year when it got rid of @Baroness_Nichol because of her sensible views on women. Now it has failed to shortlist @hilarymantel for the most amazing book I have read this year #MirrorAndTheLight. What does it have against women?
— Sheila Noakes (@1SVN) September 16, 2020
the number of folks handwringing around the internet about hilary mantel… like y'all, she's hilary fuckin mantel, she's gonna be absolutely fine
— Yash 🍂 (@yashwinacanter) September 16, 2020
Since she wasn’t shortlisted, Hilary Mantel won’t get a 3rd Booker Prize in a row for The Mirror & the Light. No loss, as the Wolf Hall series puts the past into a breathing, throbbing, living present. A perfect trilogy from page 1 (TM&TL closes as a bookend with the first page) pic.twitter.com/E5HW9A6iI2
— Ana Torres | ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴀ ʙᴏᴏᴋ 🤓📚 (@axatxrrxs) September 16, 2020
Hilary Mantel becomes the latest victim of political correctness as the final book in her trilogy fails. If books 1 & 2 were worthy how on earth can the 3rd fail to make the shortlist. #Bookerprize
— Adrian Day (@sme8491) September 16, 2020
I'm just a little annoyed. Every report I read about the Booker shortlist is lamenting Hilary Mantel being passed over for book 3 like she was entitled to it after wins 1 and 2 for books in the same series. Give me a break.
— Matt a-loose-collection-of-short-stories Casbourne (@Matt_Casbourne) September 16, 2020
I’ve read no fiction better than #themirrorandthelight this year. Surprised it’s not on the shortlist. But then I realise I haven’t read anything on the shortlist.
— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) September 16, 2020
So disappointed the great novel on Thomas Cromwell 'The Mirror and the Light' by British author Hilary Mantel failed to make the Booker Prize shortlist
— Sir David Evennett MP (@DavidEvennett) September 16, 2020
