Lorrie Moore and AL Kennedy contend for €25,000 short stories award alongside two debut collections
'Master of the form' … Lorrie Moore. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
"Masters of the short form" Lorrie Moore and AL Kennedy go head to head on the shortlist for the world's richest award for a single short-story collection in what is being hailed as a stellar year for the genre.
After short-story writer Lydia Davis won the Man Booker International award last summer, Alice Munro took the Nobel and George Saunders the Folio, director of the €25,000 Frank O'Connor prize Patrick Cotter called the shortlist for this year's award "the strongest … in years". American writer Moore has been shortlisted for Bark, an exploration of the passage of time, and Kennedy for All the Rage, set on the "battlefield of the heart", according to its publisher.
Moore and Kennedy are up against two debut authors: US ex-marine Phil Klay, shortlisted for Redeployment, set in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Irish writer Colin Barrett's Young Skins, which takes place in a fictional corner of Ireland. The Frank O'Connor line-up is completed with two more American writers: Laura van den Berg, picked for her second book The Isle of Youth, a look at women stuck in lives of deception, and Ben Marcus, who makes the cut for Leaving the Sea. Reviewing Marcus's collection in the Guardian, Stuart Kelly called the author "one of the most stunningly original and profoundly unsettling writers of his generation".
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After short-story writer Lydia Davis won the Man Booker International award last summer, Alice Munro took the Nobel and George Saunders the Folio, director of the €25,000 Frank O'Connor prize Patrick Cotter called the shortlist for this year's award "the strongest … in years". American writer Moore has been shortlisted for Bark, an exploration of the passage of time, and Kennedy for All the Rage, set on the "battlefield of the heart", according to its publisher.
Moore and Kennedy are up against two debut authors: US ex-marine Phil Klay, shortlisted for Redeployment, set in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Irish writer Colin Barrett's Young Skins, which takes place in a fictional corner of Ireland. The Frank O'Connor line-up is completed with two more American writers: Laura van den Berg, picked for her second book The Isle of Youth, a look at women stuck in lives of deception, and Ben Marcus, who makes the cut for Leaving the Sea. Reviewing Marcus's collection in the Guardian, Stuart Kelly called the author "one of the most stunningly original and profoundly unsettling writers of his generation".
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