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Emma Cline is shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019
Congratulations to Emma Cline, whom we represent on behalf of The Clegg Agency (New York),
Nina Allan's THE RIFT is longlisted for the Prix Médicis étranger and the Prix Femina étranger 2019
We are delighted that LA FRACTURE (Editions Tristram) - the French edition of Nina Allan's
Alain Claude Sulzer's new novel nominated for the Schweizer Buchpreis 2019
Alain Claude Sulzer's UNHALTBARE ZUSTÄNDE (INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS) is nominated for the Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Prize) 2019! Published to rave reviews, the novel shot into the bestseller list shortly after publication in German last month.
Adam Mars-Jones wins the Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize 2019 for BOX HILL
We’re delighted to announce that Adam Mars-Jones has won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Box Hill, a strangely tragic love story between two men set in the gay biker community during the late 1970s. Initially made possible by an Arts Council grant in 2017, the prize looks for novels which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, which are innovative and imaginative in style, which tackle subjects and themes relevant to the world we live in. Adam Mars-Jones receives a £3,000 prize in the form of an advance against publication, and Box Hill will be published in Fitzcarraldo Editions’ fiction list in March 2020.
Michael Symmons Roberts' MANCUNIA is longlisted for the Portico Prize 2019
MANCUNIA, the latest poetry collection by Michael Symmons Roberts, has been longlisted for the Portico Prize 2019! Once described as ‘the Booker of the North’, The Portico Prize awards £10,000 to the book that best evokes the spirit of the North of England. The biennial prize is the UK’s only award of its kind, and accepts submissions across all formats including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
George Szirtes' THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN is shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019
The shortlist for the coveted East Anglian Book Awards 2019 has been revealed, celebrating the very best of publishing, writing and reading in the region. Now in their 12th year, the awards celebrate writing talent within the East of England. The East Anglian Book Awards are a partnership between Jarrold, EDP, and the National Centre for Writing, supported by UEA Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the PACCAR Foundation.
George Szirtes' THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN (Maclehose Press, 2019) has been shortlisted in the 'Biography and Memoir' category.
Double win for David Szalay at the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019!
Congratulations to David Szalay on his latest book, TURBULENCE (Jonathan Cape, 2019) being awarded both the main £10,000 prize and the £1,000 Reader's Choice Award at the Edge Hill Short Story Prize this year! Originally commissioned by BBC Radio 4, the collection of stories has received critical acclaim since the publication of the print edition:
'More tales of mortality from a master of the genre... [Turbulence] is a chilling achievement.’ Evening Standard
'Szalay’s mixture of directness and withholding looks increasingly masterly.’ Financial Times
‘An ingenious literary chain letter.' iNews
Samantha Harvey's THE WESTERN WIND is shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize!
Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on being shortlisted for the second annual Staunch Book Prize! The £1,000 award was set up in 2018 by author Bridget Lawless and aims to find the best thrillers in which no woman gets beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered in response to violence of women depicted in books, TV and film.
George Szirtes shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Prize 2019
George Szirtes' hybrid work of memoir and biography, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize!
Flowing backwards through time, and through a tumultuous period of European history, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN is a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey. In July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. The Photographer at Sixteen spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from Hungary in 1956 and her time in two concentration camps, her girlhood as an ambitious photographer, and the unknowable fate of her vanished family in Transylvania. The woman who emerges – with all her contradictions – is utterly captivating. What were the terrors and obsessions that drove her? The Photographer at Sixteen reveals a life from the depths of its final days to the comparable safety of its childhood. It is a book born of curiosity, of guilt and of love.
‘A truly remarkable book... fiercely compelling’ Edmund de Waal
This is the sixth year of the literary quarterly and independent publisher Slightly Foxed’s sponsorship of the Prize, with a winner’s award of £2,500. The winner will be announced on 10th March.
The judging panel includes TV critic and journalist Suzi Feay, editor and biographer Maggie Fergusson and Jonathan Keates, a novelist and journalist.
James Lasdun's VICTORY is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020
Victory (Cape) is a novel written in two novellas, exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption.