THE CORK CITY - FRANK O'CONNOR SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED

Love Begins in Winter

Simon Van Booy

published by Harper Perennial New York and Beautiful Books London.

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 undeserved communities.

The Bookman offer warm congratulations to Simon Van Booy.

NZ hopes were. of course, riding on Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw published by Vintage, New Zealand but Grimshaw can still feel immensely proud to make the shortlist of six especially when you consider that this is open to books published in English from all over the world. On the longlist eg there were 16 authors from the US and 17 from Britain.

Grimshaw was in august company and she and her superb collection, Singularity, did wonderfully well.

There will be disappointment of course but she should also feel very proud.

And of course she was also shortlisted with Opportunity in 2007.

In Singularity Grimshaw continued to develop the structure she explored in Opportunity. Characters from that book reappear, and new characters are added.