FABER ANTH, O'CONNOR S'LIST & FLASH MOB NTERVIEW

I'm having a ball in Cáceres, Spain - a gorgeous heritage city, lovely people, very interesting Irish Studies papers on language and literature. With hot sun and tasty red wine. Heaven :)

A few newsy bits:

The Guardian mentioned Rozz Lewis's Faber anthology review today here.

And I am interviewed by Christopher Allen here in connection with my judging of this year's Flash Mob. Please enter!!

And, in good news, the shortlist for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award has been announced and it consists of six titles.Thrilled to see David Constantine there.

1) Tea at the Midland and other stories – David Constantine – Comma Press, UK
2) Siege 13 – Tamas Dobozy – Milkweed Editions, USA/ Thomas Allen, Canada
3) Black Vodka – Deborah Levy – & Other Stories, UK
4) Black Dahlia & White Rose – Joyce Carol Oates – Harpercollins, USA
5) We’re Flying - Peter Stamm – Granta, UK/ Other Press LLC
6) Battleborn - Claire Vaye Watkins – Granta UK/Riverhead Books USA 

The winning book will be announced in the first week of July and the author will come to Cork to read and receive their award at the culmination of the Cork International Short Story Festival in September www.corkshortstory.net

ENGLANDER WINS O'CONNOR 2012

Nathan Englander Photo: Telegraph

Nathan Englander has won the 2012 Frank O'Connor Award for his short story collection What we Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank. He will appear at the Cork International Short Story Festival in September, the programme for which is now online here.

I am teaching a four day short story workshop at the same festival (there a are a couple of places still available) and I'm reading with D W Wilson, on Thursday the 20th September at 7.15pm in Triskel Christchurch.

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In other news, novelist Kevin Power is teaching a one-day novel writing workshop this weekend at the Irish Writers' Centre in Dublin. €80.

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 In other other 'news', I am sitting here working with the heat on, a body warmer on, and a scarf around my neck. It's July for God's sake! Arrgghhhh!

FRANK O'CONNOR 2012 LONGLIST

The longlist for the 2012 Frank O'Connor Award has been released. My forthcoming collection Mother America (New Island, May 2012) is on it. To be fair any book that qualifies and is sent in by the publisher is on it, so it's not an achievement as such, but it's still nice :) This is my fourth time to be longlisted. It would be beyond fab to make the shortlist but, jaypers, look who else is on it: Joyce Carol Oates! Don DeLillo! Caitlin Horrocks is not on it, so that's a shame.

There are eight Irish books on this year's longlist (a record surely?). Maybe this points to a renewed interest from publishers in the short story form? The other Irish on the longlist are Órfhlaith Foyle, Mary Costello, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Eileen Casey, Jim Mullarkey, James Martyn Joyce and AN Other who is not on the list below...there are two authors with short story collections newly published who spring to mind, one of whom has clearly been accidentally ommitted and the other one's publisher clearly didn't send in the book. Or, maybe the eighth Irish person is neither of those two and is published abroad and is being classified on the longlist as being from that country? And I just don't recognise the name. Hmm.

In these recessionary times the purse has been reduced to €25,000 - but this is still the world's largest short story collection prize money. All credit to the stalwart efforts of those in the Munster Literature Centre. Patrick Cotter and his team do excellent work.

The shortlist will be announced in June and the winner in July. The winner will appear at the Cork Intl Short Story Festival in September. (Where there are lots of great classes which I will post on anon.)

The 2012 Longlist

Steve Almond, God Bless America, Lookout Books, USA
A. J. Ashworth, Somewhere Else, or Even Here, Salt Publishing, UK
Diane Awerbuck, Cabin Fever, Umuzi, South Africa
Lou Beach, 420 Characters, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA
Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Will Boast, Power Ballads, University of Iowa Press, USA
Greg Bottoms, Swallowing the Past, Texas Review Press, USA
Laura Boudreau, Suitable Precautions, Biblioasis, Canada
Shannon Cain, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
Neil Campbell, Pictures from Hopper, Salt Publishing, UK
Eileen Casey, Snow Shoes, Arlen House, Ireland
O Thiam Chin, The Rest of Your Life and Everything That Comes With It, ZI Publications, Singapore
Charles Christian, This is the Quickest Way Down, Proxima, UK
Dave Chua, The Beating, Ethos Books, Singapore
K. L. Cook, Love Songs for the Quarantined, Willow Springs Editions, USA
Mary Costello, The China Factory, The Stinging Fly Press, Ireland
Eugene Cross, Fires of Our Choosing, Dzanc Books, USA
Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda, Picador, USA
Stanley Donwood, Household Worms, Tangent Books, UK
Catherine Eisner, Listen Close to Me, Salt Publishing, UK
Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Alfred A. Knopf, USA
Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action, Anvil Press, Canada
Órfhlaith Foyle, Somewhere in Minnesota, Arlen House, Ireland
Matthew Francis, Singing a Man to Death, Cinnamon Press, UK
David Galef, My Date With Neanderthal Woman, Dzanc Books, USA
Dagoberto Gilb, Before the End, After the Beginning, Grove Press, USA
Namita Gokhale, The Habit of Love, Penguin Group, India
Lorna Goodison, By Love Possessed, HarperCollins Publishers, Jamaica
Daniel Griffin, Stopping for Strangers, Véhicule Press, Canada
Tessa Hadley, Married Love, Jonathan Cape, UK
Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference, Faber and Faber, UK
Hanjum Hasan, Difficult Pleasures, Penguin Group, India
Tania Hershman, My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Tangent Books, UK
Keith Jardim, Near Open Water, Peepal Tree Press, USA
James Martyn Joyce, What’s not Said, Arlen House, Ireland
Suzanne Kamata, The Beautiful One Has Come, Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, USA
Jackie Kay, Reality, Reality, Picador, UK
Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knock in the Door, Chatto & Windus, Israel
Fiona Kidman, The Trouble With Fire, Random House, New Zealand
Zoe Lambert, The War Tour, Comma Press, UK
Krys Lee, Drifting House, Faber and Faber, USA – South Korea
Adam Levin, Hot Pink, McSweeney’s, USA
Peter Markus, We Make Mud, Dzanc Books, USA
Rowena Mcdonald, Smoked Meat, Flambard Press, UK
Jon McGregor, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, Bloomsbury, UK
K. R. Meera, Yellow Is the Colour of Longing, Penguin Group, India
Ana Menendez, Adios, Happy Homeland!, Grove Press, USA
Clemens Meyer, All the Lights, And Other Stories, Germany
Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, HarperCollins Publishers, USA
Jim Mullarkey, And, Doire Press, Ireland
Sabina Murray, Tales of the New World, Grove Press, Australia
Stuart Nadler, The Book of Life, Picador, USA
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Mother America, New Island, Ireland
Éllis Ní Dhuibne, Shelter of Neighbours, Blackstaff Press, Ireland
Joyce Carol Oates, The Corn Maiden, Grove Press, USA
Rajesh Parameswaran, I Am an Executioner, Bloomsbury, USA
Cassandra Parkin, New World Fairy Tales, Salt Publishing, UK
Lucia Perillo, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain, W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Dave Pescod, All Embracing, Route, UK
Alice Petersen, All the Voices Cry, Biblioasis, Canada
Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need, BkMk Press, USA
Wayne Price, Furnace, Freight Books, UK
Stephanie Reents, The Kissing List, Hogarth, USA
Rebecca Rosenblum, The Big Dream, Biblioasis, Canada
Pamela Ryder, A Tendency to Be Gone, Dzanc Books, USA
Nathalie Serber, Shout Her Lovely Name, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA
Johanna Skibsrud, This Will Be Difficult to Explain, W. W. Norton & Company/ Hamish Hamilton, Canada
Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Lysley Tenorio, Monstress, HarperCollins Publisher, USA-Philippines
Laura Maylene Walter, Living Arrangements, BkMk Press, USA
Diane Williams, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, McSweeney’s, USA
D. W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle, Bloomsbury/ Hamish Hamilton, Canada
Lucy Wood, Diving Belles, Bloomsbury, UK
Barbara Unković, Moon Walking, Old Line Publishing, Croatia
Dina Zaman, King of the Sea, Silverfish Books, Malaysia

Breakdown by Nationality:

Australia 1
Canada 8
Croatia 1
Germany 1
India 3
Ireland 8
Israel 1
Jamaica 1
Malaysia 1
New Zealand 1
Singapore 2
South Africa 1
UK 17
USA 28
USA – Philippines 1
USA – South Korea 1

FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD WINNER 2011 - Edna!

WRITER EDNA O'BRIEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN MINIHAN, LONDON 1971

The news just in from Cork is that Edna O'Brien has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for her collection Saints and Sinners (I reviewed it here). An Irish winner at last, right?! Congratulations, Edna, I'm delighted for you!

She gave a stunning reading last night at the Cork Short Story Festival.

My commiserations to her fellow shortlistees, who were each worthy of the award. Wonderful writers all.

I am back in Galway, exhausted after a fantastic time at the festival. I ate too much, drank too much but I never can get enough of that short story love. It was brilliant. Pics and report to follow.

FRANK O'CONNOR SHORTLIST 2011!

Author Edna O'Brien - shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Award 2011

News just in from the Munster Literature Centre - the 2011 Frank O'Connor Award shortlist has been announced. Two Irish writers, Edna O'Brien (see my review of her collection here) and Colm Tóibín have made the list as well as former winner Yiyun Li.

Women writers dominate the  shortlist for what is the world's largest short story award, (€35,000). There are two young debutantes, Canadian Alexander MacLeod and American Suzanne Rivecca. American novelist Valerie Trueblood is shortlisted with her first short story collection. So the six shortlisted books are:

1)      Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Beijing-born, American Resident)

2)      Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod (Canadian debutante)

3)      Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien (Irish) 

4)      Death is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca (American Debutante) 

5)      The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín (Irish)
6)      Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood (American)

It is the first year two Irish authors have been shortlisted for this, the world's largest and most prestigious award for the Short Story. Established in 2005 the award is in the gift of the Munster Literature Centre and funded by Cork City Council. It is awarded for what is judged to be the best original short story collection published in English between July 1^st 2010 and June 30^th 2011.

The award will be presented at the culmination of the Cork International Short Story Festival on Sunday September 18^th. 

Previous winners have included Haruki Murakami, Jhumpa Lahiri and Simon Van Booy. 

The 2011 jury consists of Alannah Hopkin, Irish novelist and short story writer; Chris Power, music and book critic for the Guardian, BBC and London Times; and Thomas McCarthy, Irish poet, novelist and librarian.

RON RASH WINS FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD

Huge congrats to American writer Ron Rash who last night won the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, worth €35,000 for his collection Burning Bright.

"I guess I know how it feels to win a beauty pageant now," said Rash. His collection may be dark but the man's got wit.

More at the Guardian .

FRANK O'CONNOR SHORTLIST 2010

Five American writers and the wonderful English writer David Constantine have made the shortlist for the 2010 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. Huge congrats to all; three are début authors. The shortlisted books and authors are:

1. If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (Picador UK, 2010) by Robin Black

2. Mattaponi Queen (Graywolf Press, 2010) by Belle Boggs

3.Wild Child (Bloomsbury, 2010) by TC Boyle

4.The Shieling (Comma Press, 2009) by David Constantine

5.Burning Bright (HarperCollins, 2010) by Ron Rash

6. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009) by Laura van den Berg

More at Munster Lit here and The Guardian  here.

ALL WOMAN JURY FOR THE 2010 FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD

It's an all-woman jury for this year's Cork City - Frank O'Connor Award. Interesting!!! My short fiction collection Nude is eligible. Wooooo.

 

From Munster Lit:

"The Frank O'Connor Short Story Festival culminates with the presentation of the Cork City-Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, which at €35,000 is the richest award for the Short Story form in the world. I think going into its sixth year we can safely say that it is now also the world's most prestigious Short Story Award which ensures worldwide fame for the festival and the participation of some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Currently we are receiving entries for the award which can be received by us up to the end of this month.

 

In April we will publish the 2010 longlist for the award as well as the names of this year's judges. We can confirm, as a teaser, that all the judges this year happen to be women. They were each selected by Patrick Cotter for their professional relationship to fiction and the arts.  Cotter says: "I didn't deliberately set out to select a jury of all women and maybe one of these days I'll end up with a jury who happen to be all men." In June a shortlist of four or six will be chosen and those writers will all be invited to read at the festival too."

FRANK O'CONNOR WINNER 2009 ANNOUNCED

From my hotline to Cork - which I left yesterday morning after a wonderful time launching my book Nude - I have just learnt that author Simon Van Booy has won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award with his book Love Begins in Winter.

I have reviewed his book (forthcoming in The Short Review) and I can vouch for its wonderfulness.

Huge congrats to Simon, who lives in New York, and is a genuinely sweet, nice, mildly eccentric guy, as well as a skilled and fabulous writer. He told me he plays fiddle for his 5 year old daughter, who has recently developed a passion for Irish dancing, and it seemed such a cute but wholly characteristic thing for him to do.

I am sad of course for the other excellent shortlisted writers who I spent time with over the few days: Petina, Philip, Shi-li, Charlotte and Wells. It was an incredibly strong shortlist and I would not have liked to try to pick a winner from those six.

MY GUEST BLOG AT PETINA GAPPAH'S

I am a guest blogger today (my first time!) on the amazing Petina Gappah's site. Petina was just this week shortlisted for the €35,000 Cork City Frank O'Connor Award for her début short fic collection from Faber An Elegy for Easterly.

On Petina's website she has a Proust questionnaire and her answer to the question 'What do you most admire in a woman?' is:
'A good sense of humour, especially the ability to laugh at herself. Kindness, integrity and elegance.' I like that. And what does she most admire in a man?
'A good sense of humour, especially the ability to laugh at himself. Kindness, courage and integrity.' Interesting!

Anyhoo, see my post on Ms Gappah's site, about the notorious pram in the hall, here.

Cork-City Frank O'Connor Short Story Award Shortlist 2009

This news just in from the Munster Literature Centre! Irish writer Philip Ó Ceallaigh has been shortlisted for the second time for the Cork-City Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, as has Kiwi author Charlotte Grimshaw. And the wonderful Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah is also on the list. I talked about Petina's Elegy for Easterly earlier here.

HUGE congrats to the shortlistees. Here is the announcement from the administrators' of the award:

The shortlist for the 2009 Cork-City Frank O'Connor Short Story Award has been decided by an international jury. The award at 35,000 euro is the richest prize in the world for the short story form and is given annually to an original collection of stories judged to be the best. Previous winners have included Haruki Murakami, Miranda July, Jhumpa Lahiri and Yiyun Li. The award is organised by the Munster Literature Centre with generous funding from Cork City Council.

Notable names edged out for a position on this year's shortlist include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, veteran short story authors Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun and reviewers' darling Sana Krasikov.

The winner will be announced in Cork on September 20th at the closing ceremony of the tenth Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival which is the oldest annual short story festival in the world.

Further information can be obtained from Patrick Cotter, Director, The Munster Literature Centre, www.munsterlit.ie ++353 214312955

The shortlisted books are as follows:

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah published by Faber, London

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University, and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. She lives with her son Kush in Geneva, where she works as counsel in an international organisation that provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries. Her story collection, An Elegy for Easterly is published by Faber in April 2009. She is currently completing The Book of Memory, her first novel. Both books will also be published in Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw published by Vintage, New Zealand

Charlotte Grimshaw is a fiction writer. Her first novel was described as ‘New Zealand noir,’ and her later books continue to draw from a range of genres and dramatic situations. Grimshaw has contributed short fiction to anthologies, was awarded the 2006 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award, and published her first short story collection in 2007. Titled Opportunity, this collection was short-listed for the world’s richest short fiction prize, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

Ripples and other Stories by Shih-Li Kow published by Silverfish Books, Malaysia

Shih-Li Kow was born in Kuala Lumpur and was educated for the most part in schools in Malaysia. Her stories have been published in the anthologies, News from Home and Silverfish New Writing 7. Sh-li Kow holds a degree in chemical engineering and worked as an industrial engineer in a multinational consumer products company for more than ten years. She is currently in retail. She resides in Kuala Lumpur with her extended family and son, Jack.


The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip O Ceallaigh Published by Penguin Ireland.

Philip O Ceallaigh has lived and worked at a variety of jobs in Ireland,
Spain, Russia, the United States, Kosovo and Georgia.
He has lived mostly in Bucharest since 2000 where among other things he translates English subtitles for Romanian films. He has won the Glen Dimplex Award and the Rooney Prize for his first short story collection Notes from A Turkish Whorehouse which was also shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award in 2006.

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Published by FSG New York and Granta UK

Wells Tower’s short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He received two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. He divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.

Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy published by Harper Perennial New York.

Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. After playing football in Kentucky, he lived in Paris and Athens. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. Van Booy is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, now translated into several languages. He lives in New York City, where he teaches part-time at the School of Visual Arts and at Long Island University. He is also involved in the Rutgers Early College Humanities Program (REaCH) for young adults living in underserved communities.

CORK CITY - FRANK O'CONNOR 2009 LONGLIST

The longlist for the newly renamed Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award - for all eligible collections in English - was released today. There are some top names in there along with a raft of newbies. Some names that stand out for me (because I have read/know/met/am interested in them, I guess) are James Lasdun, Seán O'Brien, Mary Gaitskill, Wells Tower, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Keegan, Tania Hershman, Petina Gappah and, a member of my own Writing Peer Group, Alan McMonagle. There's also a new-to-me Irish author, Robert Graham, who hails from Belfast and teaches creative writing at Manchester University (lots of Irish writers teaching there!). Robert is one of eight Salt authors on the longlist. Congrats all!

From next year it is planned to have a shorter longlist (how short or long one wonders?) because at 57 entries this year, it's all becoming a bit unwieldy.

At €35,000 the award is the largest in the world for the short story form and monetarily is greater than the Costa Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize.

The shortlist of five will be decided in late June, with the winner announced on September 20th at the close of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival in Cork.

The judges are Lloren A. Foster, an Assistant Professor of English at Hampton University; Milka Jankowska who co-ordinates the International Short Story Festival in Wroclaw, Poland; and award-winning Irish author Vincent McDonnell.


Here's the breakdown of the longlist, by nationality:

4 Irish Authors:

Michael J. Farrell, Life in the Universe, The Stinging Fly Press

Robert Graham, The Only Living Boy, Salt Publishing

Alan McMonagle, Liar, Liar, Words on the Street

Philip Ó Ceallaigh, The Pleasant Light of Day, Penguin Ireland

15 American Authors:

Eleanor Bluestein, Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales, BkMk Press (University of
Missouri-Kansas City)

Bonnie Jo Cambell, American Salvage,Wayne State University Press

Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man: Storie, Harper Perennial

David Eagleman, Sum, Pantheon Books (Random House)

Mary Gaitskill, Don’t Cry, Pantheon Books (Random House)

Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Bird, Hyperion

Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw The Flames, University of Massachusetts Press

Ian MacMillan, Our People, BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

James Mathews, Last Known Position, University of North Texas Press

Christopher Meeks, Months and Season, White Whisker Books

Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantage of Breathing, Harper Perennial

Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter, University of Georgia Press

Glen Pourciau, Invite, University of Iowa Press

Midge Raymond, Forgetting English, Eastern Washington University Press

Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 British Authors:

Anthony Cropper, Nature’s Magician, Route

Jane Feaver, Love Me Tender, Harvill Secker (The Random House Group)

Paul Flynn, Crossing the Border, CC Publishing

Tania Hershman, The White Road, Salt Publishing

Sue Hubbard, Rothko’s Red, Salt Publishing

Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes, Faber and Faber Limited

Sushma Joshi, The End of the World, FinePrint Books

Alex Keegan, Ballistics, Salt Publishing

Charles Lambert, The Scent of Cinnamon, Salt Publishing

James Lasdun, It’s Beginning to Hurt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Tom Lee, Greenfly, Harvill Secker (The Random House Group)

Frederick Lightfoot, Fetish and Other Stories, Superscript

André Mangeot, A Little Javanese, Salt Publishing

Sean O’Brien, The Silence Room, Comma Press

John Saul, As Rivers Flow, Salt Publishing

Ali Smith, The First Person, Penguin Group Canada

Tender, Mark Illis, Salt Publishing

Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter, Harper Perennial

5 Canadian Authors:

Tricia Dower, Silent Girl, Innana Publications and Education Inc.

Hannah Holborn, Fierce, McClelland & Stewart

Pamela Stewart, Elysium, Anvil Press

Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories, Penguin Group Canada

Kuzhali Manickavel, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wing, Blaft Publications

1 Dutch Author:

Arnon Grunberg, Amuse-Bouche, Comma Press

1 Estonian Author:

Kristiina Ehin, A Priceless Nest, Oleander Press

1 German Author:

Maike Wetzel (Trans. Lyn Marven), Long Days, Comma Press

1 Icelandic Author:

Gyrơir Elíasson (Trans. Victoria Cribb), Stone Tree, Comma Press

2 Indian Authors:

Jahnavi Barua, Next Door, Penguin Books ( India )

Jasmine Anita Yvette D’Costa, Curry is Thicker Than Water, BookLand Press

1 Macedonian Author:

Kiril Bozhinov, Eclipses: Stories of Disappearances and Reappearance, Beyond Art Productions

1 Malaysian Author:

Shih-Li-Kow, Ripples and Other Short Stories, Silverfish Books

2 New Zealand Authors:

Jeanette Galpin, Aroha and the River, Maungatiro Press of Marton

Charlotte Grimshaw Singularity Vintage

2 Nigerian Authors:

Sefi Atta, Lawless, Farafina Books

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, Fourth Estate LTD

1 Spanish Author:

Empar Moliner (Trans. Peter Bush), I Love You When I’m Drunk, Comma Press

1 Ukrainian Author:

Sana Krasikov, One More Year, Portobello Books Ltd

1 Zimbabwean Author

Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly, Faber and Faber Limited