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Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000 to 5,000 words). The prize is open to citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations aged 18 and over. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is managed by Commonwealth Writers, the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, which was set up in 2012 to inspire, develop and connect writers and storytellers across the Commonwealth. The Prize replaced the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, a roughly similar competition that existed from 1996 to 2011 and was discontinued by the Commonwealth Foundation, along with the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The Prize is open to writers who have had little or no work published and particularly aimed at those places with little or no publishing industry. The prize aims to bring writing from these countries to the attention of an international audience. The stories need to be in English, but can be translated from other l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Rokonadravu
Mary Rokonadravu is a story writer from Fiji. She was the first Fijians, Fijian to win the Pacific regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize twice in 2015 and 2022. Career Rokonadravu was the first Fijians, Fijian to win the Pacific regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "''Famished Eels''" in 2015. She was also shortlisted for the same award in 2017. She has directed a prison writing programme at Suva's seven correctional facilities for four years and in 2008, she published ''shedding Silences'', the Pacific's first anthology of prison writing. In 2017, Rokonadravu launched a writing competition under the banner of the Fiji Media Watch Group. Rokonadravu was again awarded with the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ''The Nightwatch'' in 2022. Awards Books * ''Famished Eels'' — A short story narrating inter-family and regional relations. * ''Sepia'' See also * Fijian literature References Living people Fijian writers Fijian women wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Robertson
Eliza K. Robertson is a Canadian writer. She studied creative writing and political science at the University of Victoria and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2012, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Eliza was a joint winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and has been longlisted twice for the prestigious Writers' Trust / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. She was a Journey Prize finalist in 2013 for "My Sister Sang." Robertson's first full-length novel, Demi-Gods, was released in 2017. Awards *2013 Journey Prize The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short story published by a ... finalist for "My Sister Sang," published in ''Grain'' *2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, ''We Walked On Water'' Bibli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin Jared Hosein (born 1986) is a Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago. He is known for winning the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with his story "Passage". He also won the regional (Caribbean) section of the prize in 2015, with "The King of Settlement 4". His first adult novel, ''Hungry Ghosts'', was published in 2023. His writings have appeared in '' Lightspeed'' magazine, ''Wasafiri'', and on BBC Radio 4. Early life and education Kevin Jared Hosein was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1986. As a young child, he was not initially interested in reading, but was more into video games, especially those with story-heavy plots. Later on in his childhood, Hosein became deeply interested in books and writing, particularly authors such as Stephen King and Cormac McMarthy. Of Caribbean literature, the 1972 novel '' No Pain Like This Body'', written by Harold “Sonny” Ladoo, had a large influence on Hosein's interest in reading and writing. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Tel
Jonathan Tel is a British fiction writer, poet, and critic, best known for his fiction and winner of the V.S. Pritchett prize from the Royal Society of Literature. Tel has lived in the United States and United Kingdom, and traveled widely in Asia and the Middle East. He studied at Stanford University, earning an M.S. in Theoretical Physics and a Ph.D in Philosophy and History of Science. He also did graduate studies in quantum physics and general relativity at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Tel's published works include two books set in China: the novel-in-stories, ''Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao'', and the story collection, ''The Beijing of Possibilities''; also ''Freud's Alphabet,'' a novel set in Vienna and London, and ''Arafat's Elephant'', a story collection that takes place in Jerusalem. His short stories have appeared in publications such as Granta, The Guardian, The Sunday Times (UK), and Prospect. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddhartha Gigoo
Siddhartha Gigoo, is an Indian author and film-maker He studied English literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of two books of fiction, '' The Garden of Solitude'' (2011), and ''A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories '' (2015), which was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015. His short story "The Umbrella Man" won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 for Asia. Two books of his poems, ''Fall and Other Poems'' and ''Reflections'' were published by Writer’s Workshop, Kolkata. His writings have appeared in several literary magazines. Gigoo has also written and directed two short films. "The Last Day", set against the backdrop of the exodus and exile of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland in 1990, Kashmir, India, was selected for the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, the 7th Annual FilmAid Film Festival (Kenya), the International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts–Short and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 13 October 1983 in London, United Kingdom) is a Nigerian writer. She has been described as "a skillful storyteller who can render entire relationships with just a few lines of dialogue" and "a new voice with certain staying power." She is the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. Biography Arimah was born on 13 October 1983 in London. She grew up in both Nigeria and the U.K., but frequently moved around due to her father being in the military. In her early teens, she moved to the U.S., where she received her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Minnesota State University Mankato in 2010. In September 2017, the National Book Foundation honored Arimah as one of their "Five Under 35" writers to watch, and in 2019, she was a United States Artists Fellow in Writing. Arimah currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2015. Events *January 21 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a six-part television miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bring Up the Bodies''. *March 8 – The BBC launches a new television series of Winston Graham's ''Poldark'' novels. *March 10 – Jacek Dukaj's cyberpunk novel ''The Old Axolotl'' is published in its original Polish version as ' as purely electronic literature including hypertext and 3D printable character models. *March 19 – Kim Thúy's novel '' Ru'' wins the 2015 edition of ''Canada Reads''. *July 7 – Jeff Lindsay releases his final novel in the "Dexter" series, writing off Dexter Morgan two years after the final episode in the television series. *c. October 14 – Start of Causeway Bay Books disappearances: Five staff of the political bookseller Causeway Bay Books in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, go missing, apparent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist. Her first novel, ''Salt Creek'', won the 2016 Dobbie Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Award and the 2016 Walter Scott Prize. Her second novel, ''Wolfe Island'', won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for both the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020. Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria. She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ... and a diploma of professional writing and editing from RMIT University. In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Harris
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Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell (born 1981) is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist. She was the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award. Biography Born in Belfast in 1981 in what she later described as into one of the darkest and most turbulent years of the Troubles: the year the hunger strikes began, when within a few months Bobby Sands and nine others died; when things seemed to be spiralling irrevocably out of control. She studied at Strathearn School and later at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a First-Class Degree, and Goldsmiths College, London. Caldwell left the city she had always considered "boring, introverted" in 1999, but later declared: "yes, it's true: I do love this city, and I do love these streets, and I am proud to be from here." In June 2004, Caldwell's first short play, ''The River'', was performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and subsequently the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play won her the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Adam Ang
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (born 1960s) is a Ugandan-British novelist and short story writer.Daniel Musitwa"Ugandan Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi wins 2013 Kwani? Manuscript Prize" africabookclub.org, 4 July 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2016. Her doctoral novel, '' The Kintu Saga'', was shortlisted"Interview with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, shortlisted for her novel ''The Kintu Saga''" kwani.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014. and won the '''' Manuscript Project in 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |