Dylan Thomas award goes to Max Porter's 'extraordinary feat'

Grief Is the Thing With Feathers – a book about bereavement ‘like nothing else’ – takes £30,000 award

Max Porter, an editor and former bookseller, has won the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas prize for his “extraordinary feat of imaginative prose”, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers.

Described by the award administrators as “part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief”, the debut tells of how the death of a mother affects her two young sons and their father, a Ted Hughes scholar. As they face the blackest moment of their grief, they are visited by Hughes’s creation Crow, who helps them heal.

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