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MUNSTER LITERATURE CENTRE IONAD LITRÍOCHTA an DEISCIRT |
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Welcome to the Munster Founded in 1993, the Munster Literature Centre (Ionad Litríochta an Deiscirt) is a non-profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of literature, especially that of Munster. To this end, we organise festivals, workshops, readings and competitions. Our publishing section, Southword Editions, publishes a biannual journal, poetry collections and short stories. We actively seek to support new and emerging writers and are assisted in our efforts through funding from Cork City Council, Cork County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland.Originally located in Sullivan's Quay, the centre moved to its current premises in the Frank O'Connor House (the author's birthplace) at 84 Douglas Street, in 2003. In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's most beloved authors. The festival showcases readings, literary forums and workshops. Following continued growth and additional funding, the Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was introduced in 2005, coinciding with Cork's designation as that year's European Capital of Culture. The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival.In 2002, the Munster Literature Centre introduced the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize, an annual short story competition dedicated to one of Ireland's most accomplished story writers and theorists. This too is presented during the FOC festival. The centre also hosts the Cork Spring Literary Festival each year, at which the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize is awarded (established 2010). Workshops are held by featured authors in both autumn and spring, allowing the general public to receive creative guidance in an intimate setting for a minimal fee. In addition, the centre sponsors a Writer in Residence each year. We invite you to browse our website for further information regarding our events, Munster literature, and other literary information. Should you have any queries, we would be happy to hear from you.
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THE FRANK O'CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD
2005 - 2015
The Munster Literature regrets to announce that the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is to be discontinued in 2016. The award was established in 2005 in an effort to increase the profile of the short story form on the literary scene, and to reward those who were judged to have written the best collection of stories that year. Serving our ethos of innovation and development, The Munster Literature Centre announced a new opportunity in the world of short story writing: The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship. This programme is aimed at bringing accomplished international writers in contact with new and emerging Irish short story writers. *
Winners of the Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Award
View winning and shortlisted titles by year
2015
Congratulations to 2015 laureate Carys Davies for her collection The Redemption of Galen Pike!
Learn more about this collection at Salt Publishing.
2015 Judges: Clive Sinclair, Ladette Randolph The Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is an annual award of €25,000 and is currently the world's richest prize for the short story form. The award is in memory of the late Frank O'Connor, one of the world's most renowned short story writers. The award, organised by the Munster Literature Centre and funded by Cork City Council, is presented in O'Connor's hometown of Cork, Ireland, at the end of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival. The prize is awarded to the author of the book judged to be the best collection of stories published in English for the first time anywhere in the world in the twelve months between a first publication date of between July 1st of the prior year and June 30th of the current year. If a translated book wins, the purse is shared equally between the author and translator. For more information please visit our dedicated award website:
The 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist
The 2015 Longlist Almond, David: Half a Creature from the Sea (UK) Walker
2014
The winner of the 2014
Frank O'Connor International
Short Story Award
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| Young Skins by Colin Barrett | All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy | Redployment by Phil Klay |
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| Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus | Bark by Lorrie Moore | The Isle of Youth by Laura Van Den Berg |
Coverage of the Frank O'Connor Award at the Guardian.
Winner: David Constantine's Tea at the Midland and Other Stories
David Constantine's
Tea at the Midland and other stories
Click here for coverage by the Guardian (UK)
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The 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist
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| Tea at the Midland by David Constantine | Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy | Black Vodka by Deborah Levy |
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| Black Dahlia & White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates | We're Flying by Peter Stamm | Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins |
Coverage of the Frank O'Connor Award at the Guardian.
The 2013 Longlist
Louise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness, Bloomsbury Publishing, American
Celeste Augé, Fireproof and Other Stories, Doire Press, Irish-Canadian
Ramona Ausubel, A Guide to Being Born, Riverhead Books, American
Steven Barthelme, Hush Hush, Meliville House, NY, American
A. Igoni Barrett, Love Is Power, Or Something Like That, Graywold Press, Nigerian
Chris Beckett, The Peacock Cloak, NewCon Press, English
Marie-Helene Bertino, Safe as Houses, University of Iowa Press, American
Hassan Blasim translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright, Iraqi Christ, Comma Press, Iraqi (Blasim) / Wright (British)
C.P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories, Biblioasis, Canadian
Charles Boyle, The Manet Girl, Salt Publishing, British
Felix Cheong, Vanishing Point, Ethos Books (Singapore), Singaporean
Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages, Graywolf Press, American
David Constantine, Tea at the Midland and other stories, Comma Press, English
Nancy Jo Cullen, Canary, Biblioasis, Canadian
Robert Day, Where I Am Now, BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, American
Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13, Milkweed Editions, Minnesota, Canadian
Emma Donoghue, Astray, HarperCollins Canada/Picador (UK), Irish-Canadian
Juno Diáz, This Is How You Lose Her, Riverhead Books, Dominican-American
B.C. Edwards, The Aversive Clause, Black Lawrence Press, American
Valerie Fioravanti, Garbage Night at the Opera, BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, American
Kitty Fitzgerald, Miranda’s Shadow, Iron Press, Irish
Sarah Gerkensmeyer, What You Are Now Enjoying, Autumn House Press, American
Rodge Glass, LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet generation, Freight Books, British
Manuel Gonzales, The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, Riverhead Books, American
Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, American
Jennifer Haigh , News from Heaven, HarperCollins, American
Brindley Hallam Dennis, Talking to Owls, Pewter Rose Press, British
Aideen Henry , Hugging Thistles, Arlen House, Irish
Liesl Jobson, Ride the Tortoise, Jacana Media, South African
Jessica Francis Kane, This Close, Graywolf Press, American
Andy Kissane , The Swarm, Puncher and Wattmann (Australia), Australian
Rebecca Lee, Bobcat and Other Stories, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Group) (Canada), Canadian
Deborah Levy, Black Vodka, & Other Stories, South African – British
Peter Tieryas Liu, Watering Heaven, Signal 8 Press, American
Joanna Luloff , The Beach at Galle Road, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, American
Colette Maitland, Keeping the Peace, Biblioasis, Canadian
Adam Marek, The Stone Thrower, Comma Press, British
Helen Marshall, Hair Side, Flesh Side, ChiZine Publications, Canadian
Mike McCormack , Forensic Songs, The Lilliput Press, Irish
Bernie McGill, Sleepwalkers and Other Stories, Whittrick Press, Northern Irish
Nadine McInnis , Blood Secrets, Biblioasis, Canadian
Alan McMonagle, Psychotic Episodes, Arlen House, Irish
Susan Midalia, An Unknown Sky and Other Stories, The University of Western Australia Publishing, Australia
Jennifer Mills, The Rest Is Weight, University of Queensland Press, Australian
Alison Moore, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, Salt Publishing, British
Joyce Carol Oates, Black Dahlia & White Rose, HarperCollins, American
Micheál Ó Conghaile , The Colours of Man, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Irish
Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water, Granta Publicaitons, Nigerian-American
Prajwal Parajuly, The Gurkha’s Daughter, Quercus Books, Indian
Janice Pariat , Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories, Random House India, Indian
Jonathan Pinnock , Dot Dash, Salt Publishing, English
Garry Craig Powell , Stoning the Devil, Skylight Press, English
Ron Rash, Nothing Gold Can Stay, HarperCollins(USA)/Canongate(UK), American
Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You, HarperCollins, American
Rob Roensch, The Wild Flowers of Baltimore, Salt Publishing, American
Jane Rogers, Hitting Trees with Sticks, Comma Press, English
Josephine Rowe, Tarcutta Wake, University of Queensland Press, Australian
Ethan Rutherford, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, HarperCollins, American
Alfian Sa’at, Malay Sketches, Ethos Books (Singapore), Singaporean
Ted Sanders, No Animals We Could Name, Graywolf Press, American
George Saunders , Tenth of December, Bloomsbury, American
Anis Shivani, The Fifth Lash & Other Stories, C&R Press, American
Joan Silber , Fools, W. W. Norton & Company Inc., American
Chad Simpson, Tell Everyone I Said Hi, University of Iowa Press, American
Peter Stamm, We’re Flying, Granta/ Other Press LLC, Swiss
Susan Steinberg , Spectacle, Graywolf Press, American
Ashley Stokes, The Syllabus of Errors, Unthank Books, English
Steven Schwartz, Little Raw Souls, Autumn House Press, American
Ayelet Tsabari, The Best Place on Earth, HarperCollins Canada, Israeli
Jess Walter, We Live in Water, HarperCollins, American
Guy Ware, You Have 24 Hours to Love Us, Comma Press, British
Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn, Granta/Riverhead Books, American
Tony Williams, All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten: Tales of Love and Loneliness, Salt Publishing, British
Joel Willans, Spellbound–Stories of Women’s Magic Over Men, Route Publishing, English
Winner: Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Judges: James Harpur, Mary Leland & Anne Luttrell.
The 2012 Shortlist
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| Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander | The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall |
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| Suddenly a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret | The Trouble with Fire by Fiona Kidman | Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo |
A. J. Ashworth, Somewhere Else, or Even Here, Salt Publishing, UK
Diane Awerbuck, Cabin Fever, Umuzi, South Africa
Lou Beach, 420 Characters, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA
Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Will Boast, Power Ballads, University of Iowa Press, USA
Greg Bottoms, Swallowing the Past, Texas Review Press, USA
Laura Boudreau, Suitable Precautions, Biblioasis, Canada
Shannon Cain, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
Neil Campbell, Pictures from Hopper, Salt Publishing, UK
Eileen Casey, Snow Shoes, Arlen House, Ireland
O Thiam Chin, The Rest of Your Life and Everything That Comes With It, ZI Publications, Singapore
Charles Christian, This is the Quickest Way Down, Proxima, UK
Dave Chua, The Beating, Ethos Books, Singapore
K. L. Cook, Love Songs for the Quarantined, Willow Springs Editions, USA
Mary Costello, The China Factory, The Stinging Fly Press, Ireland
Eugene Cross, Fires of Our Choosing, Dzanc Books, USA
Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda, Picador, USA
Stanley Donwood, Household Worms, Tangent Books, UK
Catherine Eisner, Listen Close to Me, Salt Publishing, UK
Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Alfred A. Knopf, USA
Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action, Anvil Press, Canada
Órfhlaith Foyle, Somewhere in Minnesota, Arlen House, Ireland
Matthew Francis, Singing a Man to Death, Cinnamon Press, UK
David Galef, My Date With Neanderthal Woman, Dzanc Books, USA
Dagoberto Gilb, Before the End, After the Beginning, Grove Press, USA
Namita Gokhale, The Habit of Love, Penguin Group, India
Lorna Goodison, By Love Possessed, HarperCollins Publishers, Jamaica
Daniel Griffin, Stopping for Strangers, Véhicule Press, Canada
Tessa Hadley, Married Love, Jonathan Cape, UK
Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference, Faber and Faber, UK
Hanjum Hasan, Difficult Pleasures, Penguin Group, India
Tania Hershman, My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Tangent Books, UK
Keith Jardim, Near Open Water, Peepal Tree Press, USA
James Martyn Joyce, What’s not Said, Arlen House, Ireland
Suzanne Kamata, The Beautiful One Has Come, Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, USA
Jackie Kay, Reality, Reality, Picador, UK
Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knock in the Door, Chatto & Windus, Israel
Fiona Kidman, The Trouble With Fire, Random House, New Zealand
Zoe Lambert, The War Tour, Comma Press, UK
Krys Lee, Drifting House, Faber and Faber, USA – South Korea
Adam Levin, Hot Pink, McSweeney’s, USA
Peter Markus, We Make Mud, Dzanc Books, USA
Rowena Mcdonald, Smoked Meat, Flambard Press, UK
Jon McGregor, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, Bloomsbury, UK
K. R. Meera, Yellow Is the Colour of Longing, Penguin Group, India
Ana Menendez, Adios, Happy Homeland!, Grove Press, USA
Clemens Meyer, All the Lights, And Other Stories, Germany
Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, HarperCollins Publishers, USA
Jim Mullarkey, And, Doire Press, Ireland
Sabina Murray, Tales of the New World, Grove Press, Australia
Stuart Nadler, The Book of Life, Picador, USA
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Mother America, New Island, Ireland
Éllis Ní Dhuibne, Shelter of Neighbours, Blackstaff Press, Ireland
Joyce Carol Oates, The Corn Maiden, Grove Press, USA
Rajesh Parameswaran, I Am an Executioner, Bloomsbury, USA
Cassandra Parkin, New World Fairy Tales, Salt Publishing, UK
Lucia Perillo, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain, W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Dave Pescod, All Embracing, Route, UK
Alice Petersen, All the Voices Cry, Biblioasis, Canada
Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need, BkMk Press, USA
Wayne Price, Furnace, Freight Books, UK
Stephanie Reents, The Kissing List, Hogarth, USA
Rebecca Rosenblum, The Big Dream, Biblioasis, Canada
Pamela Ryder, A Tendency to Be Gone, Dzanc Books, USA
Nathalie Serber, Shout Her Lovely Name, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA
Johanna Skibsrud, This Will Be Difficult to Explain, W. W. Norton & Company/ Hamish Hamilton, Canada
Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Lysley Tenorio, Monstress, HarperCollins Publisher, USA-Philippines
Laura Maylene Walter, Living Arrangements, BkMk Press, USA
Diane Williams, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, McSweeney’s, USA
D. W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle, Bloomsbury/ Hamish Hamilton, Canada
Lucy Wood, Diving Belles, Bloomsbury, UK
Barbara Unković, Moon Walking, Old Line Publishing, Croatia
Dina Zaman, King of the Sea, Silverfish Books, Malaysia
Breakdown by Nationality:
Australia 1
Canada 8
Croatia 1
Germany 1
India 3
Ireland 8
Israel 1
Jamaica 1
Malaysia 1
New Zealand 1
Singapore 2
South Africa 1
UK 17
USA 28
USA – Philippines 1
USA – South Korea 1
Winner: Edna O'Brien's Saints & Sinners
Judges: Alannah Hopkin, Thomas McCarthy, & Chris Power
The 2011 Shortlist
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| Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li | Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod | Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien |
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| Death is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca | The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín | Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood |
The 2011 Longlist
Clark Blaise The Meagre Tarmac Biblioasis USA
Summer Brenner My Life in Clothes Red Hen Press USA
Jo Cannon Insignificant Gestures Pewter Rose Press UK
Uttara Chauhan Blue Blood Penguin India Canada
Michael Christie The Beggar’s Garden HarperCollins Canada Canada
Richard Cumyn The Young in Their Country Enfield and Wizenty Canada
Anthony Doerr Memory Wall Fourth Estate USA review coming soon
Doug Dorst The Surf Guru Riverhead Books USA
Deyan Enev Circus Bulgaria Portobello Bulgaria
Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Riverhead Books USA
Stuart Evers Ten Stories about Smoking Picador UK
Edward Falco Burning Man Southern Methodist University Press USA
Siobhan Fallon You Know When the Men Are Gone Amy Einhorn Books USA
Roshi Fernando Homesick Impress UK
Karen Joy Fowler What I Didn’t See Small Beer USA review coming soon
Vanessa Gebbie Storm Warning Salt UK review coming soon
Sue Gee Last Fling Salt UK
Ben Greenman Celebrity Chekhov Harper Perennial USA
Linda LeGarde Grover The Dance Boots University of Georgia Press USA
Tina May Hall The Physics of Imaginary Objects University of Pittsburgh Press USA review coming soon
Alan Heathcock Volt Graywolf USA
Ava Homa Echoes from the Other Land Tsar Canada
Valerie Laken Separate Kingdoms Harper Perennial USA
Yiyun Li Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Random House/ Fourth Estate China
Michael Kardos One Last Good Time Press 53 USA
Gitanjali Kolanad Sleeping with Movie Stars Penguin India India
Sean Mackel The River Guildhall Ireland
Alexander MacLeod Light Lifting Biblioasis Canada
Andre Mangeot True North Salt UK
Javier Marías While the Women are Sleeping Chatto and Windus Spain
Rob Mimpriss For His Warriors Gwasg y Bwthyn UK review coming soon
Mariko Nagai Georgic BkMk Japan
Prem Nath Crowded Rooms Penguin India India
Courttia Newland A Book of Blues Flambard UK review coming soon
Edna O’Brien Saints and Sinners Faber Ireland
Daniel Orozco Orientation Faber USA
Sue Orr Random House New Zealand New Zealand
E.C.Osondu Voice of America Granta Books Nigeria
Kelcey Parker For Sale By Owner Kore USA
Miroslav Penkov East of the West Farrar, Straus & Giroux Bulgaria
Anne Perdue I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore Insomniac Canada
Andrew Plattner A Marriage of Convenience BkMk USA
Dawn Promislow Jewels Tsar Canada
Shann Ray American Masculine Graywolf USA
Mary Rechner Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women Propeller USA
Susannah Rickards Hot Kitchen Snow Salt UK
Suzanne Rivecca Death is Not an Option Norton USA
Moya Roddy Other People Wordsonthestreet Ireland
Ethel Rohan Cut Through the Bone Dark Sky Books Ireland
Gretchen Shirm Having Cried Wolf Affirm Australian
L.E. Smith Views Cost Extra Fomite USA
Christine Sneed Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry University of Massachusetts Press USA
Fiona Thackeray The Secret’s in the Folding Pewter Rose Press UK
Rabi Thapa Nothing to Declare Penguin India Nepal
Colm Tóibín The Empty Family Viking Penguin Ireland
Matthew J. Trafford The Divinity Gene Douglas & McIntyre Canada
Jessica Treadway Please Come Back to Me University of Georgia Press USA
Paul Tremblay In the Mean Time ChiZine Publications USA
Valerie Trueblood Marry or Burn Counterpoint USA
Salley Vickers Aphrodite’s Hat Fourth Estate UK review coming soon
Ferdinand Von Schirach Crime Chatto and Windus Germany
Tom Vowler The Method Salt UK
Susi Wyss The Civilized World Holt USA
Winner: Ron Rash's Burning Bright
Judges: Mary Morrissy, Nadine O'Regan, & Diana Reich
The 2010 Shortlist
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| Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs | Wild Child by T.C. Boyle |
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black |
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| The Shieling by David Constantine | Burning Bright by Ron Rash | What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura Van Den Berg |
The 2010 Longlist
(In no particular order)
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Temsula Ao (India)
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Laburnum |
Penguin
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Richard Bausch (USA) |
Something is out there: Stories by Richard Bausch
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Alfred A. Knopf |
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Martin Bax (UK) |
Memoirs of a Gone World
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Salt |
4 |
Pinckney Benedict (USA) |
Miracle Boy and Other Stories
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Press 53 |
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Louis de Bernières (UK)
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Notwithstanding
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Harvill Secker |
6 |
Belle Boggs (USA) |
Mattaponi Queen: stories
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Graywolf Press |
7 |
T.C. Boyle (USA)
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Wild Child
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Bloomsbury |
8 |
O Thiam Chin (Singapore)
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Never Been Better
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MPH Publishing
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9 |
Kunzang Choden (Bhutan) |
Tales in Colour and Other Stories
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Zubaan – Penguin |
10 |
Craig Cliff (New Zealand) |
A Man Melting
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Vintage – Random House
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11 |
Venita Coelho (India) |
The Washer of the Dead
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Zubaan – Penguin |
12 |
Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Ireland) |
Nude
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Salt |
13 |
David Constantine (UK) |
The Shieling
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Comma Press |
14 |
Jameson Currier (USA) |
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
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Lethe Press |
15 |
Brian Joseph Davies (Canada) |
Ronald Reagan, My Father
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ECW Press |
16 |
Deyan Enev (Bulgaria) |
Circus Bulgaria |
Portobello Books
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17 |
Anne Finger (USA) |
Call The Ahab |
University of Nebraska Press
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18 |
Patrick Gale (UK)
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Gentleman’s Relish |
Fourth Estate |
19 |
Angelica Garnett (UK) |
The Unspoken Truth |
Chatto and Windus – Random House
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20 |
Holly Goddard Jones (USA) |
Girl Trouble |
Harper Perennial
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21 |
Perry Glasser (USA)
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Dangerous Places |
BkMk Press
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22 |
Alyson Hagy (USA)
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Ghosts of Wyoming |
Graywolf Press
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23 |
Dhruba Hazarika (India)
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Luck |
Penguin
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24 |
Mark Illis (UK)
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Tender |
Salt
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25 |
Barb Johnson (USA) |
More of This World or Maybe Another |
Harper Perennial
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26 |
Lorraine M. López (USA) |
Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories
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BkMk Press, |
27 |
Thomas Lynch (USA) |
Apparition and Late Fictions: a novella and stories
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Jonathan Cape – Random House
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28 |
Paul Magrs (UK)
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Twelve Stories
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Salt |
29 |
Martin Malone (Ireland) |
The Mango War: and other stories
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New Island |
30 |
Owen Marshall (New Zealand) |
Living as a Moon |
Vintage – Random House
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31 |
Donal McLaughlin (Northern Ireland) |
An Allergic Reaction to National Anthems
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Argyll Publishing |
32 |
Lori Ostlund (USA)
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The Bigness of the world
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University of Georgia Press |
33 |
Manoj Kumar Panda (India) |
The Bone Garden and Other Stories
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Rupantar |
34 |
Wena Poon (Singapore) |
The Proper Care of Foxes
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Ethos Books |
35 |
Dawn Raffel (USA) |
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe
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Dzanc Books |
36 |
Mahmud Rahman (Bangladesh)
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Killing the Water
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Penguin |
37 |
Ron Rash (USA) |
Burning Bright
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Ecco; Harper Collins
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38 |
Peter Robinson (UK) |
The Price Of Love: And Other Stories
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McClelland and Stewart |
39 |
Anne Sanow (USA) |
Triple Time |
Pittsburgh University Press
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40 |
Sarah Selecky (Canada) |
This Cake Is for the Party
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Thomas Allen Publishers |
41 |
Bubul Sharma (India) |
Eating Women, Telling Tales: Stories about Food
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Zubaan - Penguin |
42 |
Robert Shearman (UK)
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Love songs for the shy and cynical
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Big Finish |
43 |
Sam Shepard (USA)
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Day out of Days |
Alfred A. Knopf
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44 |
Anis Shivani (USA) |
Anatolia and Other Stories |
Black Lawrence Press
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45 |
Louise Stern (USA)
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Chattering: Stories |
Granta
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46 |
Kalpana Swaminathan (India)
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Venus Crossing |
Penguin |
47 |
Justin Taylor (USA) |
Everything here is the best thing ever
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Harper Perennial |
48 |
Ruth Thomas (UK)
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Super Girl |
Faber and Faber
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49 |
Laura van den Berg (USA) |
What the world will look like when all the water leaves us
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Dzanc Books |
50 |
David T. K. Wong (China) |
Chinese Stories in Times of Change
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Asian Stories - Muse |
51 |
Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands)
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How To Escape From A Leper Colony |
Graywolf Press |
52 |
Michele Roberts (UK) |
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love
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Little Brown |
53 |
Helen Simpson (UK) |
In-Flight Entertainment
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Cape |
54 |
Billie Livingston (Canada) |
Greedy Little Eyes |
Random House Canada
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| 55 | Hassan Blasim (Iraq) | The Madman of Freedom Square
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Comma Press |
| 56 | David Means (USA) | The Spot | Faber & Faber
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| 57 | Xiaolu Guo (China) | Lovers in the Age of Indifference
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Chatto & Windus |
| 58 | Robin Black (USA) | if i loved you, i would tell you this | Picador UK |
Statistics:
- 28 women/ 30 men
- 23 Americans, 12 British, 6 Indians, 3 Canadians, 3 Irish, 2 New Zealanders, 2 Singaporeans, 2 Chinese, one each from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Iraq & US Virgin Islands.
Winner: Simon Van Booy's Love Begins in Winter
Judges: Lloren Foster, Milka Jankowska, & Vincent McDonnell
The 2009 Shortlist
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| An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah | Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw | Ripples and Other Stories by Shih-Li Kow |
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| The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip Ó Ceallaigh | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower | Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy |
The 2009 Longlist
Here's the breakdown of the longlist, by nationality:
4 Irish Authors:
Michael J. Farrell, Life in the Universe, The Stinging Fly Press
Robert Graham, The Only Living Boy, Salt Publishing
Alan McMonagle, Liar, Liar, Words on the Street
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, The Pleasant Light of Day, Penguin Ireland
15 American Authors:
Eleanor Bluestein, Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales, BkMk Press (University of
Missouri-Kansas City)
Bonnie Jo Cambell, American Salvage,Wayne State University Press
Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man: Storie, Harper Perennial
David Eagleman, Sum, Pantheon Books (Random House)
Mary Gaitskill, Don’t Cry, Pantheon Books (Random House)
Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Bird, Hyperion
Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw The Flames, University of Massachusetts Press
Ian MacMillan, Our People, BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
James Mathews, Last Known Position, University of North Texas Press
Christopher Meeks, Months and Season, White Whisker Books
Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantage of Breathing, Harper Perennial
Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter, University of Georgia Press
Glen Pourciau, Invite, University of Iowa Press
Midge Raymond, Forgetting English, Eastern Washington University Press
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 British Authors:
Anthony Cropper, Nature’s Magician, Route
Jane Feaver, Love Me Tender, Harvill Secker (The Random House Group)
Paul Flynn, Crossing the Border, CC Publishing
Tania Hershman, The White Road, Salt Publishing
Sue Hubbard, Rothko’s Red, Salt Publishing
Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes, Faber and Faber Limited
Sushma Joshi, The End of the World, FinePrint Books
Alex Keegan, Ballistics, Salt Publishing
Charles Lambert, The Scent of Cinnamon, Salt Publishing
James Lasdun, It’s Beginning to Hurt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tom Lee, Greenfly, Harvill Secker (The Random House Group)
Frederick Lightfoot, Fetish and Other Stories, Superscript
André Mangeot, A Little Javanese, Salt Publishing
Sean O’Brien, The Silence Room, Comma Press
John Saul, As Rivers Flow, Salt Publishing
Ali Smith, The First Person, Penguin Group Canada
Tender, Mark Illis, Salt Publishing
Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter, Harper Perennial
5 Canadian Authors:
Tricia Dower, Silent Girl, Innana Publications and Education Inc.
Hannah Holborn, Fierce, McClelland & Stewart
Pamela Stewart, Elysium, Anvil Press
Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories, Penguin Group Canada
Kuzhali Manickavel, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wing, Blaft Publications
1 Dutch Author:
Arnon Grunberg, Amuse-Bouche, Comma Press
1 Estonian Author:
Kristiina Ehin, A Priceless Nest, Oleander Press
1 German Author:
Maike Wetzel (Trans. Lyn Marven), Long Days, Comma Press
1 Icelandic Author:
Gyrơir Elíasson (Trans. Victoria Cribb), Stone Tree, Comma Press
2 Indian Authors:
Jahnavi Barua, Next Door, Penguin Books ( India )
Jasmine Anita Yvette D’Costa, Curry is Thicker Than Water, BookLand Press
1 Macedonian Author:
Kiril Bozhinov, Eclipses: Stories of Disappearances and Reappearance, Beyond Art Productions
1 Malaysian Author:
Shih-Li-Kow, Ripples and Other Short Stories, Silverfish Books
2 New Zealand Authors:
Jeanette Galpin, Aroha and the River, Maungatiro Press of Marton
Charlotte Grimshaw Singularity Vintage
2 Nigerian Authors:
Sefi Atta, Lawless, Farafina Books
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, Fourth Estate LTD
1 Spanish Author:
Empar Moliner (Trans. Peter Bush), I Love You When I’m Drunk, Comma Press
1 Ukrainian Author:
Sana Krasikov, One More Year, Portobello Books Ltd
1 Zimbabwean Author
Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly, Faber and Faber Limited
Winner: Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
Judges: Eileen Battersby, Rosalind Porter & Liam Ronayne.
No shortlist was announced in 2008.
Read Guardian article 'Jhumpa Lahiri jumps the shortlist to the world's richest prize'.
2008 Longlist
IRELAND (5 authors)
- Mary Rochford (IRELAND)
Gilded Shadows
Tia Publishing, Birmingham, UK - Mary O’Donnell (IRELAND)
Storm over Belfast
New Island, Dublin, Ireland - Gerard Donovan (IRELAND)
Country of the Grand
Faber & Faber Ltd, London, UK - Anne Enright (IRELAND)
Taking Pictures
Jonathan Cape – The Random House Group, London, UK - Roddy Doyle (IRELAND)
The Deportees and other stories
Jonathan Cape – The Random House Group, London, UK
BRITAIN (14 authors including 8 authors from Salt Publishing)
- James Waddington (BRITAIN)
Torc
Ogo Press, Honley, Holmfirth, UK - Clare Wigfall (BRITAIN)
The Loudest Sound and Nothing
Faber & Faber Ltd, London, UK - Niki Aguirre (BRITAIN)
29 Ways to Drown
Flipped Eye Publishing, Manchester, UK - Wendy Perriam (BRITAIN)
Little Marvel and Other Stories
Robert Hale Limited, London, UK - David Gaffney (BRITAIN)
Aroma Bingo
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Carys Davies (BRITAIN)
Some New Ambush
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Elizabeth Baines (BRITAIN)
Balancing on the Edge of the World
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Padrika Tarrant (BRITAIN)
Broken Things
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Linda Cracknell (BRITAIN)
The Searching Glance
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - William Guy (BRITAIN)
The I Love You Book
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Vanessa Gebbie (BRITAIN)
Words From a Glass Bubble
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Richard Bardsley (BRITAIN)
Body Parts – The Anatomy of Love
Salt Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, Uk - Robert Shearman (BRITAIN)
(Writer of the Dr Who series and a contemporary of David Walliams at Reigate Grammar School, has worked with Alan Ayckbourn and had a play produced by Francis Ford Coppola)
Tiny Deaths
Comma Press, Manchester, Uk - Adam Marek (BRITAIN)
Instruction Manual for Swallowing (Short Review coming soon)
Comma Press, Manchester, Uk
AUSTRALIA (4 authors)
- John Clancy (AUSTRALIA)
Her Father’s Daughter
University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Queensland, Australia - Susan Midalia (AUSTRALIA)
A History of the Beanbag
Uwa Press, Crawley, Australia - Kathryn Lomer (AUSTRALIA)
Camera Obscura
University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Queensland, Australia - Nam Le (VIETNAM-AUSTRALIA)
The Boat (Short Review coming soon)
Canongate Books Limited, Edinburgh, UK
NEW ZEALAND (4 authors)
- Tim Jones (NEW ZEALAND)
Transported
Random House New Zealand Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand - Sue Orr (NEW ZEALAND)
Etiquette for a Dinner Party
Random House New Zealand Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand - Elizabeth Smither (NEW ZEALAND)
The Girl Who Proposed
Cape Catley Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand - Witi Ihimaera (NEW ZEALAND)
Often regarded as the most prominent Māori writer alive today, his novel, The Whale Rider, was made into the very successful film of the same name.
Ask The Posts Of The House
Raupo Publishing Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
USA (8 authors)
- Jhumpa Lahiri (USA) WINNER
Unaccustomed Earth
Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Random House Inc., New York, Usa - Wanda Coleman (USA)
Jazz and Twelve O’Clock Tales
Black Sparrow Books, Boston, Massachusetts, Usa - Benjamin Percy (USA)
Refresh, Refresh
Jonathan Cape – The Random House Group, London, Uk - Janet Kauffman (USA)
Trespassing – Dirt Stories and Field Notes
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Usa - Jim Shepard (USA)
Like you’d understand, anyway
Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Random House Inc., New York, Usa - Marianne Herrmann (USA)
Signaling For Rescue
New Rivers Press, Moorhead, MN, Usa - Don Waters (USA)
Desert Gothic
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Usa - Donald Ray Pollock (USA)
Knockemstiff
Harvill Secker Editorial – The Random House Group Ltd, London, UK
CANADA
- Alison MacLeod (CANADA)
Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction
Hamish Hamilton, London, UK
SINGAPORE
- Wena Poon (SINGAPORE)
Lions in Winter: stories
MPH Group Publishing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
TAIWAN
- Egoyan Zheng (Qian-Ci Zheng) (TAIWAN)
Urn’s Bottom Village Stories
Press Store Publishing Co., Taichung City, Taiwan
NIGERIA
- Tubal R. Cain (NIGERIA??)
Dandaula and Other African Tales
Precious Styles Nigeria Limited, Jebba, Kwara State, Nigeria
Winner: Miranda July's No One Belongs Here More Than You
Judges: Segun Afolabi, Rick Moody and Nuala Ní Chonchúir
The 2007 Shortlist
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| Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw | No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July | Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret |
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| The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz | Valentines by Olaf Olafsson | The Separate Heart by Simon Robson |
Winner: Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
(Award shared with translators Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel)
Judges: Claire Keegan, Maurice A. Lee, Toby Litt, Thomas McCarthy, and Silke Scheuermann
The 2006 Shortlist
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| Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami | Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse by Philip Ó Ceallaigh | The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman |
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| In the Strange Gardens by Peter Stamm | The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain | The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay |
2006 Longlist
'In Strange Gardens & Other Stories' by Peter Stamm (Swiss German) translated by Michael Hoffmann.
'The Darkness of Wallis Simpson' by Rose Tremain (UK).
'To The World of Men Welcome' by Nuala Ní ChonChúir (Irish).
'The Good Works of Ayela Linde' by Charlotte Forbes (US)
'The Unfinished Novel & Other Stories' by Valerie Martin (UK)
'I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train' by Peter Hobbs (UK)
'A Life Elsewhere' by Segun Afolabi (Nigerian)
'Notes from A Turkish Whorehouse' by Philip Ó Ceallaigh (Irish)
'Gallatin Canyon' by Thomas McGuane (US)
'Constitutional' by Helen Simpson (UK)
'Joyce's Pupil' by Drago Jancar (Slovenia), translated by Various
'Matters of Life & Death' by Bernard MacLaverty (Irish)
'Is This the Way You Said' by Adam Thorpe (UK)
'The Magician's Beautiful Assistant and Other Stories' by Rachel Wyatt (Canada)
'The First Hurt' by Rachel Sherman (US)
'Drowning in Gruel' by George Singleton (US)
'Year of Fire' by David H Lynn (US)
'Touchy Subjects' by Emma Donoghue (Ireland)
'Twilight of the Superheroes' by Deborah Eisenberg (US)
'Untold Stories' by Alan Bennett (UK)
'No Paradiso' by William Wall (Ireland)
'Kafka in Bronteland and other Stories' by Tamar Yellin (UK)
'Invisible Islands' by Angus Peter Campbell (UK)
'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman' by Haruki Murakami (Japan), translated by Gabriel & Rubin
'The Young Apollo and Other Stories' by Louis Auchincloss (US)
'The Royal Ghosts' by Samrat Upadhyay (US)
'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' by Nic Pizzolatto (US)
'The Unsettling' by Peter Rock (US)
'Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead' by Alan DeNiro (US)
Winner of the inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award:
Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Judges: Desmond Hogan, James Lasdun, Mary Leland, Val McDermid, and Hansjörg Schertenleib
The 2005 Shortlist
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| Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozig | Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman | Corpus Christi by Bret Anthony Johnston |
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| A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li |
The Secret Goldfish by David Means | The Turning by Tim Winton |
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