Tuesday, March 22, 2016

International Dylan Thomas prize 2016 unveils 'phenomenally talented' shortlist

An ‘astounding array’ of work by six young writers, including Sunjeev Sahota and the Guardian first book award winner Andrew McMillan, will compete for the £30,000 prize in May


Sunjeev Sahota
Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways which has been shortlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas prize Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian.
Guardian first book award winner Andrew McMillan’s poetry collection Physical is competing with Sunjeev Sahota’s Booker-shortlisted novel The Year of the Runaways for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas prize.

Awarded for the best work of English-language fiction – poetry, novels, short stories or drama – by an author aged 39 or under, the prize is named after the Welsh poet who died at the age of 39 in 1953. Chair of judges professor Dai Smith from Swansea University said this year’s shortlist showed “an astounding array of form, genre and achievement from such young writers”.
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