When I lived in Modern Times thinks that book prizes are just a marketing exercise, loves e-books and deliberately didn't read Zadie Smith.
People seem to want to know about the difference between writing journalism and writing fiction.
I don't think there's such a big wall. Both of them ought to be about good writing and telling stories. Well, not myself, no. In fact friends can testify that up to being in the car on the way to the ceremony I was adamantly saying that I wasn't. But I have to say that starting around a week before, people started telling me that they thought I was going to win.