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WEST by Carys Davies is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019
Congratulations to Carys Davies, whom we represent on behalf of The Clegg Agency, on being shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 for her debut novel WEST, described by the judges as an 'audacious novella about a quixotic early American father'.
'Immensely engaging and brilliantly written, this short debut novel is a miniature masterpiece. [...] Scenes sparkle with wry comedy. Unexpected alliances form. Menace looms and ordeals are braved amid breathtaking landscapes.' Sunday Times Books of the Year 2018
John Burnside to chair T. S. Eliot judging panel
John Burnside has been announced as the chair of judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2019.
GHOST WALL is shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
We're delighted that GHOST WALL by Sarah Moss has made the shortlist of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019!
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer, photographer and filmmaker, living in South East London.
Anna Mackmin's DEVOURED is shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2019
Congratulations to Anna Mackmin on being shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2019! Alan Hollinghurst, Chair of Judges, described DEVOURED as an "exuberant and technically inventive debut... [Mackmin] shows us the variously pompous, randy and self-deluded adults in a 1970s Norfolk commune through the eyes of drolly observant child on the cusp of puberty. DEVOURED is absorbing, unnerving and extremely funny.”
David Szalay's TURBULENCE is longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019
The longlist for 13th Edge Hill University Short Story Prize, the only UK based award to recognise excellence in a single authored short story collection, includes TURBULENCE by David Szalay!
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.