Moore wins Book Of The Year

BBC ^ | 2-25-03 | staff

[jordan8]

Moore's book was originally shelved by US publishers

A satirical anti-war attack on President George Bush and the US political machine was the surprise winner of the top prize at the British Book Awards.

Stupid White Men, by author and filmmaker Michael Moore, took the Book of the Year award.

Moore's book beat Roy Keane's bestselling autobiography, one of the fancied favourites, as well as Booker winner, Life of Pi, and Ian McEwan's Atonement.

Moore's triumph was boosted by a strong telephone vote from the public, who were invited to participate in the awards for the first time this year.

Until now only those in the publishing industry have been able to vote.

"It looks like a very strong anti-war vote both from insiders in the book business and the public," said Awards organiser Merric Davidson.

"The Keane book got a lot of public votes from the Manchester area, but Moore's book proved nationally very popular."

Stupid White Men was shelved by publishers in the US at first. They only changed their minds after a protest by US librarians.

Success

The Author of the Year award went to novelist Sarah Waters whose latest book Fingersmith was shortlisted for both the Booker and Orange prizes.

Jacqueline Wilson was awarded the Children's Book of the Year for Girls In Tears, while Biography of the Year went to the late Roy Jenkins book Churchill.

Style gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine picked up the Film and TV Book Award for their sartorial bible What Not To Wear.

The pair beat JK Rowling, Jamie Oliver, Ricky Gervaise and Simon Schama in one of the closest run categories.

The night also saw success for broadcaster Michael Palin who won in the Illustrated Book of the Year category for Sahara.

The awards - known in the industry as the Nibbies - were handed out at a ceremony at London's Grosvenor House on Monday.

[DB]

Well that pretty much says it all...

Sick world...

[ChicagoRepublican]

Wow what a prestigious award. Even illiterate soccer thug Roy Keane's book was up for an award. What ever happened to the nation that gave us Dickens, Wordsworth, Tennyson etc. They give book of the year to a poorly written, unreaserched sensationalist and insulting book.

[flying Elvis]

I thought it was a rather good useful book. Not as soft as Charmin though.

[rpage3]

Hey folks, see what this book, "Double Take - Politically Incorrect Limericks" by some body named Jaggero (which I read over the Xmas holidays) had to say about MOORE; it's a cheap and funny as heck book that also makes some great observations about BILL/HILL and a lot of their best buddies, terrorism/terrorists, politicians (ours), pop-culture (& Hollywood leftists - the book accurately predicted that Bill Maher will return on cable...) and society, in general. Check out their website here:

http://www.doubletakebook.com

I'll say this too, if this book had a liberal slant it would be hailed by the media as a pure work of art! A picture I took of a poster ad (in NYC) can be seen here:

http://home.nyc.rr.com/sandr/poster1.jpg


By the way, I sent this book as a gift to a few of my liberal "friends" last Christmas, I haven't heard from them since...makes me wonder!

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[Charles Henrickson]

Moore's triumph was boosted by a strong telephone vote from the public. . . .

As shown in the upcoming documentary . . .

"Re-dialing on Call-in Line"

[Afronaut]

Book Of The Year? Oh THE BOOK OF THE YEAR award!