Booker Prize Awarded for Book You've Never Heard Of

LONDON, Oct. 10 -- John Banville's "The Sea," a lyrical novel about loss and remembrance, won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction at a dinner in London Monday.

The Booker Prize is Great Britain's highest literary honor. It is awarded annually to the most impenetrable new work of fiction in the English language.

Please join me in nodding approvingly, even though you've never heard of the book, and will never read it.

Banville's novel narrowly defeated J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Same Basic Plot."

Cheer up, J.K. At least you can console yourself with the fact that you are worth about a billion dollars.


Banville: Critical Acclaim


Rowling: All About the Benjamins, Baby