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Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

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1timjones
Editat: juny 10, 2008, 9:51 am

This is a continuation of the discussion at the previous topic "International Short Story Award", at

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=2815

I thought it was a good idea to give the prize its correct title, but couldn't change the topic title. Thanks to amandameale for the suggestion of the best way round that.

To recap: The 2008 longlist is at

http://www.munsterlit.ie/Short%20Story/FOC%20AWARD%20Home.html

Interviews with longlisted authors are appearing at

http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/

The shortlist will be announced in mid-July.

2citizenkelly
juny 10, 2008, 11:40 am

Congratulations on your nomination, senjmito :-) You are in very good company!
I should probably add that our own LT author Rob Shearman has also been nominated for his rather good collection, Tiny Deaths. Good luck to you both!

As an Irish person, I'm rather chuffed by the fact that two of the most financially rewarding prizes in the world (The Dublin Impac for novels, and the Frank O'Connor for short stories) are Irish prizes.

I'm also chuffed that I can re-post last year's winner Miranda July's HILARIOUS website (and follow-up), which cracks me up every time (although I thought the stories themselves were only so so).

3teelgee
juny 10, 2008, 11:58 am

I LOVE that website, it is so original and fun.

Well, I did not realize we were among celebrities - congrats, Tim, I look forward to reading your stories!! Good luck!

Off to look at MJ's followup....

4avaland
juny 10, 2008, 2:26 pm

Speaking of which, the Impac Dublin is awarded Thursday, I think.

5avaland
juny 10, 2008, 2:35 pm

Yes, Congratulations Tim on your nomination. Could you tell us a little about your fiction? Off to investigate.

I read Rob's collection which is wonderfully clever.

6amandameale
juny 10, 2008, 11:18 pm

Good luck Tim. And thanks for naming the prize correctly. I had no idea it was an Irish prize.

7timjones
Editat: juny 11, 2008, 8:10 am

Thanks, citizenkelly, teelgee, avaland, and amandameale! I'd read and enjoyed Rob's author interview at "The Good Books Guide" without realising he's an LT author - and his book sounds really good.

There's lots of stuff about Transported on my blog, but a quick summary is that it contains 27 stories, about 2/3 of which have been previously published - in NZ, the UK, the US and (in translation) Vietnam. "Diverse" is a word often applied to my work - Transported is united by motifs of transport and journeys, but contains stories in a variety of genres: realism, metafiction, and speculative fiction of various sorts. There's two stories about Russia, and one about Australia!

Fundamentally, though, it's a literary fiction collection and is being marketed as such.

Some of the stories in Transported were first published online - here are a few, weighted towards SF and metafiction :

When She Came Walking
A Short History of the 20th Century, With Fries
Homestay
Borges and I
Books in the Trees

Regards
Tim




8timjones
Editat: juny 11, 2008, 8:08 am

As a PS to #8, stories by myself, Sue Orr (another NZ author longlisted for the award this year), and Charlotte Grimshaw, who made the Frank O'Connor award shortlist in 2007, are contained in Read at Work, a New Zealand Book Council initiative.

Read at Work presents classic stories and poems, and work by contemporary New Zealand authors, in the form of rather imaginatively-formatted PowerPoint presentations - the conceit being that the format allows you to read them safly while at work.

The only downside is that there are some bits missing from my story, "Win a Day with Mikhail Gorbachev!" (also in Transported) - I *think* this is by accident. But the whole thing is well worth a look.

Best New Zealand Fiction 4 is a good selection of recent New Zealand short fiction, formatted in a more conventional way.

9timjones
jul. 5, 2008, 9:58 pm

The 2008 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award has been given to Jhumpa Lahiri for her collection Unaccustomed Earth. The judges did not select a shortlist, but awarded the prize directly from the longlist, saying:

With a unanimous winner at this early stage we decided it would be a sham to compose a shortlist and put five other writers through unnecessary stress and suspense.


See the Guardian article for more information.

10avaland
jul. 6, 2008, 8:35 pm

Sorry Tim & Rob, it was a hard collection to beat, I suppose.

11timjones
jul. 7, 2008, 2:32 am

>10 avaland:: I think Unaccustomed Earth would have won anyway, but the judges' decision has deprived the five other authors who would have been shortlisted of invaluable publicity. Although I respect the judges' decision to skip the shortlist, I don't think avoiding unnecessary stress and strain to the shortlisted writers is a valid reason for doing so.

Still, it matters naught what I think at this point: onwards to 2009!

Regards
Tim

12avaland
jul. 8, 2008, 10:06 pm

I agree about the shortlist. And it's possible that so many would have read the winner that they would have (perhaps) looked to the shortlist for the 'next great thing.'

13citizenkelly
jul. 11, 2008, 10:17 am

Hard luck Tim and Rob - but how marvellous to be a part of it all!
I agree about the shortlist too. Pish posh.

Whenever I hear Jhumpa Lahiri's name I'm reminded of my very very very favourite song of 1992 (it gets going around 0:40).

14fridaysixpm
jul. 28, 2008, 10:01 pm

I thought it was a real pity the judges didn't produce a shortlist, too. Abdication of responsibility, really!

And now I have that "where's my jumper" riff in my head forever - thanks citizenkelly.

15geocroc
juny 8, 2012, 4:11 pm

I noticed this week that the shortlist of the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award had been unveiled. One of the shortlisted authors is Sarah Hall, and I've very much enjoyed her earlier novels, so this prize caught my eye. Equally I'd not heard of the prize before.

It's an Irish award now in it's eighth year and worth €25,000 and is awarded to the first collection of short stories by any author, published in English anywhere in the world. Translations are eligible for consideration and have indeed won in the past. Past winners have been Yiyun Li (2005), Haruki Murakami (2006), Miranda July (2007), Jhumpa Lahiri (2008), Simon van Booy (2009), Ron Rash (2010) and Edna O'Brien (2011).

So to this year's shortlist which is as follows:

Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
The Trouble With Fire by Fiona Kidman
The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
Suddenly A Knock On The Door by Etgar Keret
Happiness Is A Chemical In The Brain by Lucia Maria Perillo

The winner is due to be announced on July 5th.

Personally, I'm keen to read the Sarah Hall, as I've really enjoyed the two previous books of her's that I've read: The Electric Michaelangelo and Haweswater. But I'm not familiar with any of the other authors.

16torontoc
juny 8, 2012, 5:32 pm

Etgar Keret is terrific- very bizarre and very brief stories. I just started the Englander and am impressed.

17hemlokgang
set. 14, 2012, 3:17 pm

Nathan Englander won.

18bergs47
juny 28, 2013, 6:12 am

19torontoc
juny 28, 2013, 7:19 am

I read Tamas Dobozy's book- very good- it won the Writers' Trust Award last year.

20bergs47
juny 30, 2014, 4:30 am

2014 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Shortlist announced 13 June 2014 ;

Colin Barrett, Young Skins
Laura van den Berg, The Isle of Youth
A. L. Kennedy, All the Rage
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea
Lorrie Moore, Bark

This year's Frank O'Connor-winning writer will be announced in early July.

21bergs47
ag. 29, 2014, 9:33 am

.... and the winner was

Colin Barrett, Young Skins

22bergs47
ag. 26, 2015, 11:06 am

2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Winner

The Redemption of Galen Pike, by Welsh writer Carys Davies, has won this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. It’s an exceptional prize with an exceptional purse: €25,000

Here is the full list of six finalists:
Refund, by Karen E. Bender
The Redemption of Galen Pike, by Carys Davies
Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories, by Tony Earley
Infidelities, by Kirsty Gunn
Crow Fair, by Thomas McGuane
My Documents, by Alejandro Zambra