The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award is synonymous with fresh, bold, startlingly unique approaches to fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In the second of our articles probing the enviable minds of its shortlisters, Andrew McMillan, Benjamin Wood, Max Porter and Jessie Greengrass share just what books they have lying on their bedside table.
Every year, The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Prize shortlist showcases the most inventive, unusual and down-right brilliant young writers. Andrew Holgate, one of this year's judges, said: "This is a sensationally strong list of books and writers, all of whom have a real future in literature, and any of whom as winner would stand comparison with the prize’s extraordinary list of past recipients." Showing us just how it’s done, shortlisters Andrew McMillan, Benjamin Wood, Max Porter and Jessie Greengrass provide their hints on how to be a better writer.
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Our own Richard Humphreys and Paul McGonigal got to share a podium with Jimmy Connors and other winners at last night's British Sports Book Awards.
"The only thing I was sure of when I was writing this satire on literary prizes was that it wouldn't win any prizes. I was wrong. I had overlooked the one prize with a sense of humour." Edward St Aubyn's Lost For Words - and the author sees the funny side.
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