The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2021 Winner
It is our great pleasure to confirm Cal Flyn as the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award 2021 for Islands of Abandonment.
Brimming with insight and delivered in sparkling, riveting prose, Flyn’s extraordinary book explores some of the most deserted, ravaged and polluted places around the world, offering at once a haunting tour of exclusion zones caused by human crises and a redemptive story of nature's capacity to adapt and renew.
‘We all fell hard for this book: the originality of thinking, the intellectual rigor, the love for all that is gone and yet not entirely lost, and of course the sheer magic of the prose. Cal Flyn finds sublime beauty in the most unlikely of places, and, in doing so, gives us all reason to hope that our planet may yet be saved. You cannot ask for a better reason to read.’
TAHMIMA ANAM,Judge
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