‘The Wake’ wins 2014 Gordon Burn Prize

13 October 2014 Books+Publishing

In the UK, Paul Kingsnorth’s crowdfunded novel The Wake (Unbound) has won the Gordon Burn Prize, reports the Bookseller. The prize, worth £5000 (A$9246), celebrates writers whose works follows in the ‘fearless footsteps’ of the late English writer Gordon Burn, described by award organisers as a ‘literary polymath, writing forensically on subjects ranging from celebrity to serial killers, politics to contemporary art, sport to the media’. Written in a combination of old and modern English, The Wake tells the story of a group of Saxon men fighting the Norman invaders after 1066. As well as the cash prize, Kingsnorth wins the opportunity to take up a three-month writing retreat at Burn’s cottage in Berwickshire. To see the other books on the shortlist, click here.

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