Former US marine Phil Klay’s short story collection Redeployment takes £25,000 award
Former US marine Phil Klay has won the £25,000 Warwick prize for writing with his “scaldingly affecting” collection of short stories detailing the Iraq war.
Redeployment beat titles including Karl Ove Knausgaard’s A Man in Love, Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Marilynne Robinson’s Lila to the award, given every two years, which is open to any genre or form of writing, and which this year took the theme of “instinct”.
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