![]() The shortlist was made up of two collections of poetry, three novels and two short story collections. The chair of judges, Peter Florence, compared Vaye Watkins to Dylan Thomas, paying tribute to her ability to give "a perfect version of a complete world" in a short story.įellow judge Allison Pearson called her "truly gifted", suggesting that it was particularly exciting for the £30,000 prize to find a "truly remarkable short story writer" in the year Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. ![]() ![]() The stories, which first appeared in literary magazines such as Granta, the Paris Review and Ploughshares, were written after the death of her mother, while studying at Ohio State University. The 29-year-old author has called it a "homesick book and a grieving book", made from "mutated, exaggerated or sculpted versions of rumours whispered around my town and the mythology of the Mojave desert, where I was from". ![]()
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