Yes, 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Full judging panel announced: chaired by Peter Stothard, it consists of Dinah Birch, Amanda Foreman, Dan Stevens, and Bharat Tandon.
Most of the commentary -- despite headlines claiming Man Booker Prize adds intellectual glamour (Sameer Rahim, writing in The Telegraph) -- focus on the actor in the lot (i.e. the one name British 'readers' are likely to recognize), Dan Stevens.
It's amusing to see how the press release tries to back up that choice by pointing to Stevens' ... literary bona fides ? He's: "a prolific narrator of audiobooks" ! His: "television work includes lead roles in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Andrew Davies's adaptation of Sense & Sensibility" !
Well, I'm convinced ..... (Of what I'll leave for you to guess .....)
Most of the commentary -- despite headlines claiming Man Booker Prize adds intellectual glamour (Sameer Rahim, writing in The Telegraph) -- focus on the actor in the lot (i.e. the one name British 'readers' are likely to recognize), Dan Stevens.
It's amusing to see how the press release tries to back up that choice by pointing to Stevens' ... literary bona fides ? He's: "a prolific narrator of audiobooks" ! His: "television work includes lead roles in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Andrew Davies's adaptation of Sense & Sensibility" !
Well, I'm convinced ..... (Of what I'll leave for you to guess .....)