From the Academy

Prizes are a powerful means of celebrating books that might otherwise fail to find due recognition. We asked our Academicians to imagine that the Folio Prize had existed through time, and to nominate a book that they would like to have seen win. Some of their choices qualify as truly undiscovered, while others may not have received the attention they deserve, but they take in every kind of form, style and subject, and are all wonderful books.

You can see more of our Academicians' answers in 'From the Academy'

Salman Rushdie on “the salon des refusés”

I’d have liked to see Angela Carter recognized for Nights at the Circus or Wise Children; or David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas; or Martin Amis for Money; or Zadie Smith for White Teeth; or Vikram Seth for A Suitable Boy; or Alasdair Gray for Lanark; or Rohinton Mistry for Such a Long Journey or A Fine Balance; or Colm Toibin for The Master; or In Custody by Anita Desai; or Crash, by JG Ballard; or something by Robertson Davies, or anything by Rose Tremain, or… well, I just wanted to suggest that the “salon des refusés” is at least as distinguished as the list of winners.