Literary Prizes: Would You Or Wouldn’t You?

The books are good, but can we talk for a minute or thirty about these prizes, please. Does a culture of book prizes keep modern literature youthful and well-funded? Is patronage culture good at separating great books from trendy ones?    You can find Supriya Nair at @supriyanair and Deepanjana Pal at @dpanjana. This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at www.maedinindia.in.   If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at [email protected]. For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out: http://bit.ly/thelitpickersbooks.