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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Maybe by established you mean people who sell 5 million copies of their book or something but to be honest the day Tom Clancy gets nominated for a Booker prize is the day I give up on literature altogether.
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Pratchett deserves a proper literature prize infinitely more than the 'lol this is a tragic tale about a poor family from africa!!!" dross you often have winning such things.
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Tipping the Velvet is a 1998 Victorian lesbian novel written by Sarah Waters. It was her debut novel.
It tells the story of Nancy Astley, an oyster girl from the English town of Whitstable, who falls in love with a male impersonator and stage performer named Kitty Butler. The book, like the rest of Waters' novels, has a strong lesbian theme, though Tipping the Velvet in particular deals very candidly with the topic of lesbian sex and desire along with the role that economic class can play in oppression. The title is a Victorian-era euphemism for cunnilingus
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Without even bothering to read it, this is precisely the sort of politically-motivated 'real-life' crap that is fairly representative of what 'respectable people' considered good literature towards the latter half of the 20th century. It's not like we're in a position where we can decline much further.