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CK Stead wins short story prize
The grand old man of New Zealand letters, CK Stead, has won the world's richest short story prize
A bittersweet tale about the damaged ego of a Croatian intellectual has won the acclaimed New Zealand novelist and poet CK Stead the world's most valuable prize for a short story.
Last Season's Man, a story about a young writer who criticises his elder in an article, damaging his reputation amongst Croatia's literary elite, was this evening named winner of the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank short story award, worth £25,000. Stead, 77, winner of the New Zealand book award for both poetry and fiction, beat shortlisted authors including the 28-year-old novelist Joe Dunthorne and the former journalist Will Cohu to take the prize.
Judge and author Hanif Kureishi called the winning story "a wry, perceptive look at rivalry and love" which was "a fine example of how a short story should be constructed and written"; Stead said he was "immensely pleased and grateful" to have won an award "treating the short story with the kind of seriousness it has received for example in France".
Observer journalist Lynn Barber, who joined Kureishi on the judging panel along with AS Byatt, Nick Hornby and the literary editor of the Sunday Times Andrew Holgate, said that a lot of the stories submitted for the award were somewhat depressing. "I think perhaps my role as a judge was to look for witty or upbeat stories, which were hard to find," she said. "There were quite a lot of bereaved children." Her comments echo those of Daisy Goodwin, chairing the Orange prize judging panel this year, who complained earlier this month on announcing the longlist that "there's a lot of grimness out there ... Pleasure seems to have become a rather neglected element in publishing."
Each of the shortlisted authors – who also include novelist David Vann and Frank O'Connor award nominee Adam Marek – will receive £500, and all the shortlisted stories will be published in the Sunday Times magazine, starting with Stead's entry this Sunday. Over 1,100 short stories were submitted for this year's prize.
News From:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/ ... d-short-story-prize |
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