British author Simon Van Booy has won the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for his collection, Love Begins in Winter, the world's richest award for a short story collection.Patrick Cotter, director of the Munster Literature Centre, which organises the festival and Short Story Award praised the other works on the shortlist (which includes Malaysian author Shih-li Kow's Ripples) saying that it was one of the most evenly matched ones the judges had ever had. The choice of Van Booy was though, he said was :
... a majority one, rather than a unanimous one.This is Van Booy’s second collection of stories and his first novel is to be published next year.
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I would love to hear about Shih-Li's experience attending the ceremony and also the reading that she did before the ceremony.
i think Raman will probably blog that - keep your eye on the silverfish website. i will link later.
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