Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize winner and most recently Booker Prize winner, made an elderly lady very angry. 72 year old Carmen Callil was until recently one of three judges who decided who gets awarded the Booker Prize. The passionate decision of the two other judges to award North American writer Philip Roth made her resign from her position. One of her statements regarding her move is that “he goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book. It’s as though he’s sitting on your face and you can’t breathe”. Ms Callil, who is the publisher of female writers and founder of Virago Press, is probably annoyed by Roth’s recurring subject of old men getting involved with young females and his sexually explicit descriptions of resulting acts. Tomorrow’s Guardian Review will feature an outspoken column by Carmen Callil on the subject.
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[...] der Person des Preisträgers entflammte nun eine leidenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung. Von here & now wird sie wie folgt zusammengefasst: Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize winner and most recently Booker [...]