Holgate: inclusion of US authors 'disastrous' for Man Booker | The Bookseller

In an opinion piece about the newly announced Man Booker longlist titled "What's gone wrong with the Man Booker?", Holgate wrote: "Though last year's list, the second for which Americans were eligible, still felt eclectic, this year's list feels too top-heavy with US writers - and not ones necessarily to inspire any sort of excitement. There is barely a Commonwealth presence on the list, and whole areas of fiction writing from abroad that were so much a part of the literary debate and profile in this country have been shouldered aside. The identity of British and Commonwealth writing seems to have been shouldered aside along with it. And this pattern, I suspect will continue into the future."