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THE EIGHTH LIFE by Nino Haratischvili is longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize
Congratulations to Nino Haratischvili, and her translators Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, on making the longlist of the 2020 International Booker Prize!
Philip Marsden's THE SUMMER ISLES is longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020
THE SUMMER ISLES: A VOYAGE OF THE IMAGINATION is Philip Marsden's account of a solo sailing trip he took from Cornwall to the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores – of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss – and the redemptive power of the imagination.
DOLORES by Lauren Aimee Curtis is shortlisted for the 2020 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Congratulations to Lauren Aimee Curtis on being shortlisted for the 2020 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing! Awarded annually in Australia by the State Library of New South Wales, as part of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the prize ($5,000) seeks to recognise outstanding new literary talent. The winner will be announced on 27th April.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN by George Szirtes is shortlisted for the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Many congratulations to George Szirtes, whose hybrid work of biography and memoir about
The New York Times Book Review on WE GERMANS by Alexander Starritt
"Starritt’s prose is riveting. It unspools like a roll of film - raw, visceral and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty." The New York Times Book Review
George Szirtes awarded James Tait Black Prize in biography for THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN
Judge Dr Simon Cooke said: "George Szirtes' reverse chronological portrait of the woman who was his mother is a piercingly beautiful memoir-as-prose-poem, as generous as it is scrupulous in its searching meditation on a death and life, on memory and history, and on how we imagine the lives of those we love."
SUMMERWATER by Sarah Moss published to critical acclaim
'Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined, utterly of the moment... it throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel
DOLORES by Lauren Aimee Curtis is shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2020
'[DOLORES] is a highly enigmatic novella that manages to work some strange magic on the reader. The writing is superb and the imagery leaves an indelible impression. Lauren Aimee Curtis’s debut is one of those books you can’t wait to discuss with other readers.'
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel THE GLASS HOTEL is longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Giller Prize, founded by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, highlights the very best in Canadian fiction year after year. In 2005, the prize teamed up with Scotiabank who increased the winnings 4-fold. The Scotiabank Giller Prize now awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel, graphic novel or short story collection published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists.
Caleb Azumah Nelson is shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020
The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was established to raise the profile of the short form and this year’s shortlist join distinguished alumni such as Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver, Rose Tremain, William Trevor and Mark Haddon. As well as rewarding the most renowned short story writers, the Award has raised the profile of new writers including Ingrid Persaud, K J Orr, Julian Gough, Cynan Jones and Clare Wigfall