Arinze Ifeakandu awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Arinze Ifeakandu has been awarded one of the world’s largest literary prizes for young writers – the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.
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Arinze Ifeakandu has been awarded one of the world’s largest literary prizes for young writers – the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.
Aoife McArdle, from Co Tyrone, took home the IFTAs Rising Star award at a glittering ceremony last weekend
The writer took the £20,000 award for writers under 39 with his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
Shy concludes Max Porter’s informal trilogy of short, poetic novels powered by pain and polyphony. First, in 2015, came Grief is the Thing with Feathers, in which a widowed Ted Hughes scholar is both shocked and comforted by the arrival of a croaking, crouching crow. Then, four years later, Lanny, which followed a young boy
The teen-aged protagonist of “Shy” is caught between helpless sensitivity and impulsive violence.