''The Elected Member'' is a novel by Welsh writer
Bernice Rubens. It won the
Booker Prize for Fiction
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...
in 1970.
Plot
The novel's main character is Norman Zweck, who is addicted to
amphetamines
Substituted amphetamines, or simply amphetamines, are a chemical class, class of compounds based upon the amphetamine structure; it includes all derivative (chemistry), derivative compounds which are formed by replacing, or substitution reacti ...
and is convinced that he sees
silverfish wherever he goes.
Awards
''The Elected Member'' won the 1970 Booker Prize. This made Rubens the first woman (and as of 2021, the only Welsh author) to win the prize.
References
External links
Review of ''The Elected Member'' from the Booker Blog at ''The Guardian''
Booker Prize–winning works
1969 British novels
Novels by Bernice Rubens
Eyre & Spottiswoode books
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