But I really hope writers aren't only thinking about their Booker plans every year. I know my publisher would like to see me get a shortlisting. Yeah, I'm not lying awake at night worrying about the Booker Prize, or anybody's prize. but I'm not anxious to win the Booker Prize. "People want to win the Booker because it's good for business, good for your publisher. "Mate, believe me, I couldn't care less about it," he says. In terms of the WA prize, it was great - it gave me the chance to promote the. Well that's just a recipe to driving yourself nuts. Or you'll start writing with a view to cracking the prizes. Otherwise you'll give yourself a broken heart, you know. "I've been doing it long enough to know that it's a bit of a crapshoot, a bit of a lottery and you can't take it too seriously. If you lose it doesn't mean yours isn't the best book," he says. "You get a little bit of affirmation, which is nice, but you can't take it too seriously because if you win it doesn't mean necessarily that yours is the best book. Winton sparked a minor controversy back home in Perth by immediately donating the $25,000 purse from the WA award to the fighting fund for the campaign he is heading against "a hideous white-shoe development" planned for the pristine whale shark breeding ground at Ningaloo Reef in WA.
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