Welcome to Friday Debate, a feature on cup of tea with that book, please, where every Friday a question will be posted that tantalize the brain and expands our horizons. For this week’s question:

Like movies and music, books receive prizes and recognition, very well deserved of course. When a book wins a literary prize, the book publishers usually republish the work, acknowledging the prize it has just won, a marketing tactic to encourage readers to be more interested in the book.

So with the recent announcement of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, I wanted to ask these two questions:

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Post any comments you have below.