LITERARY CANON AND LITERARY PRODUCTION: AWARDS AND THE CRITICAL JUDGEMENT

Text topic: Awards and Prizes in Culture

Text author: Владислава Гордић Петковић

The paper addresses the possibility of establishing connections between the procedure of awarding literary prizes on the one hand and the proper evaluation of a literary work on the other, focusing on The Man Booker Prize and The NIN Award for the Novel of the Year. Judging literary works is thought to influence both critical evaluation and achievement of media visibility, but the latter turns out to be more important in the new media environment, as the constant neglect for the elite art serves to move most respectable works to the margins of public interest.