Osborne-Crowley longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize
In the UK, British–Australian author Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$20,011) Gordon Burn Prize.
Osborne-Crowley was longlisted for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell (A&U), which had previously been longlisted for the Walkley Book Award.
The titles longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize are:
- Headshot (Rita Bullwinkel, Daunt Originals)
- Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Danielle Dutton, Prototype)
- The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them (Ekow Eshun, Hamish Hamilton)
- Ootlin (Jenni Fagan, Hutchinson Heinemann)
- Mrs Jekyll (Emma Glass, CHEERIO)
- I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (Keiran Goddard, Abacus)
- White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany’s Far Right (Jacob Kushner, Mudlark)
- Poor Artists (Gabrielle de la Puente & Zanina Muhammed, Particular Books)
- Only Here, Only Now (Tom Newlands, Phoenix)
- The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell (Lucia Osborne-Crowley, A&U)
- England Is Mine (Nicolas Padamsee, Serpent’s Tail)
- The Horse (Willy Vlautin, Faber).
Founded in 2012, the Gordon Burn Prize celebrates ‘writing across all genres including biography, memoir, novels, and short story collections’. The prize recognises ‘exceptional writing which has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter and often defies easy categorisation’ and ‘celebrates literary outliers and daring and experimental work that often speaks to broader societal issues’.
More information is available on the prize website.
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