Pullman wins Whitbread

Philip Pullman’s novel, The Amber Spyglass won the Whitbread Award for best Book last night. The Whitbread is the longest-running literary award in the UK.

Pullman’s books are great, so I’m happy for him. But what facinates me is that many of the hits in my referrer log are coming from people searching for phrases such as “philip pullman antichrist” or “pullman anti-christian” on Google. Of course, this weblog entry just contaminated those results.

So, has Pullman become the religous right’s latest Bette Noir?

But, as I put to the editor of one review tagging the novels as a clear and present danger: if your faith can be shaken by a novel, it was weak to start with.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on January 23, 2002 at 12:00 am and filed under books. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.