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McFarlane, Serong longlisted for 2023 Walter Scott Prize

Monday, 20 February 2023   Books+Publishing
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Two Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK’s £25,000 (A$43,750) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Fiona McFarlane was longlisted for her second novel The Sun Walks Down (A&U), and Jock Serong for The Settlement (Text).

The 12 books longlisted for the prize are:

  • The Romantic (William Boyd, Viking)
  • These Days (Lucy Caldwell, Faber)
  • My Name is Yip (Paddy Crewe, Doubleday)
  • The Geometer Lobachevsky (Adrian Duncan, Profile Books)
  • Act of Oblivion (Robert Harris, Hutchinson Heinemann)
  • The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (Paterson Joseph, Dialogue Books)
  • The Chosen (Elizabeth Lowry, Riverrun)
  • The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (Sean Lusk, Doubleday)
  • Ancestry (Simon Mawer, Little, Brown)
  • The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane, A&U)
  • I Am Not Your Eve (Devika Ponnambalam, Bluemoose)
  • The Settlement (Jock Serong, Text).

It its 14th year, the Walter Scott Prize recognises the best fiction set 60 or more years ago, and is open to novels published in the previous year in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth.

The shortlist will be announced in March/April, with the winners announced in June at the Borders Book Festival event in Melrose, Scotland. Each shortlisted author receives £1500 (A$2630). Last year’s winner was James Robertson for News of the Dead (Hamish Hamilton).

For more information, see the Prize website.

 

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