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SunStar Contributed photo January 25, 2021 THE international longlist for one of the world’s largest literary prizes for young writers -- the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize -- is announced on January 21, 2021, featuring a record number of nine debut writers. The list comprises nine novels, two poetry collections and one short story collection, and at a time when travel has been restricted and contact with loved ones limited, these extraordinary titles -- eight of which are by female writers -- transport the reader from Seoul to Hong Kong, Syria to Kilburn, Montana to Dub...

Top 10: the TS Eliot Prize shortlist Each year, the T S Eliot Prize offers poets a chance to win a huge sack of cash, and critics a chance to generalise about trends in poetry. So here goes: long fragmentary narratives are in, love poems are out (though Natalie Diaz unfashionably flies the flag for sensual abandon). Who’ll win the £25,000 prize? If I were judging, it’d be Sasha Dugdale or Shane McCrae. But I’m not, so I’d bet on Diaz, with a side-flutter on Bhanu Kapil. I’m sore about the omission of Timothy Donnelly’s superb The Problem of the Many, and wouldn’t have minded ...