Julian Barnes: letting US authors compete for Booker prize is 'daft'

Former winner says opening award to American writers, including ‘heavy hitters’, would limit chances of others

Man Booker winner Julian Barnes has criticised opening up the UK’s premier literary prize to American writers, calling it “straightforwardly daft”.

The novelist, who won the award in 2011 for The Sense of an Ending, revealed he was firmly against the controversial changes introduced in 2014.

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