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The Turner to go international?


The welcome announcement that the Booker Prize will from 2004 be
awardable to American writers has already sent a shiver through
the bookmakers stalls that line Tate Britain. Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman
Rushdie, Ian McEwan, David Storey, Ben Okri all support the change
in the rules. The logic is that the Turner would also benefit, and
gain new life and energy by opening the floodgates. The venue would
move to Tate Modern permanently. It’s worth thinking through.

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