She realised that the ' pretentious, arty, plotless literary fiction' that she had been trying to write for adults was rubbish.

Self moaned last year that difficult literary fiction was a dying art form.

One judge said that it was the first time literary fiction had successfully dealt with the internet.

One way of injecting that element would be for the judges to look more closely and favourably at genre fiction as well as literary fiction.

Read literary fiction and nonfiction.