The Non-Booker Prize 1966 with Miranda Seymour, Naomi Kanakia and Henry Eliot

The Non-Booker Prize 1966 with Miranda Seymour, Naomi Kanakia and Henry Eliot

The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969 – but who might have won the prestigious award had it existed in, say, 1966, a year that saw the publication of great novels by Kingsley Amis, John Fowles, Jean Rhys and Paul Scott amongst many others? And what constitutes a great/prize winning novel? A distinguished panel discusses… In conversation with Claire Armitstead.