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Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, talks to The Irish Times Literary Correspondent and member of the judging jury, Eileen Battersby. Read the interview by following this link: A Serious Voice in a Brash World I’ve been back a couple of days now and only just about recovered [...] I’ve been back a couple of days now and only just about recovered enough to write about the time I spent at the Frank O’Connor Festival in Cork. I guess that means that I did it right! The festival started on Wed 17th Sept; I arrived late on the 19th. The full programme is here [...] It’s just around the corner now and Salt will be there! On Saturday, 20th September: “The State of the Art – a Discussion” Chaired by Rosalind Porter Senior Editor at Granta and including the participation of Stinging Fly editor Declan Meade, Jen Hamilton-Emery, commissioning editor at Salt, Seamus Hosey RTE Radio producer and organiser of the Francis McManus [...] I’ve been away for a couple of weeks so haven’t had a chance to post this update, which by now I’m sure everyone is aware of. This year in a surprise move, the Frank O’Connor judges decided to skip drawing up a shortlist but instead to go straight for the awarding of the prize. And [...] Eric Forbes is a book editor who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is in love with reading good books — and with the redeeming nature of literature. He’s putting a lot of effort into tracking down and interviewing all the authors on the Frank O’Connor longlist. His latest interview is with, Vanessa Gebbie, author [...] How chuffed am I — I’ve been invited by the wonderful people at Frank O’Connor Prize to attend their awards festival in September! They have asked me to take part in a round-table discussion on the short story. I am so pleased to be invited; what a fantastic opportunity to meet the world’s short story [...] It’s great to be longlisted for the Frank O’Connor prize – but I bet I would have had a better chance of getting on the short list had my book Aromabingo been presented in PowerPoint format. Well, it’s not, but you can see my project Destroy Powerpoint, a set of ultra short stories about powerpoint [...] For the second year running Salt has a wide range of new authors in the world’s leading short story prize: The Frank O’Connor Prize.. Check out the prizes titles: BRITAIN (14 authors including 8 authors from Salt Publishing) James Waddington (BRITAIN)TorcOgo Press, Honley, Holmfirth, UK Clare Wigfall (BRITAIN)The Loudest Sound and Nothing Faber & Faber Ltd, London, UK Niki [...] With eight titles longlist in the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, Salt has launched a new blog to keep track of the authors, the books, the news and the gossip! [...] |
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