Janice Harayda
Jul 30, 2021

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Thank you! I'm a former vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle, and as a journalist, I've covered major book awards extensively for newspapers and other media. And credible awards programs virtually always let you know who the final judges are or were. To keep people from trying to influence judges, the programs may not reveal judges' names before the winners are announced, but they do it afterward. Not doing that creates suspicions that a hidden agenda is at work.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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