KJ Orr and Claire-Louise Bennett compete with Hilary Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw and Tahmima Aman for £15,000 prize
Debut writers KJ Orr and Claire-Louise Bennett are competing with the two-time Man Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel for this year’s BBC national short story award.
The five writers shortlisted for the £15,000 prize were chosen from 478 entries, with the first round in the selection process judged anonymously. Mantel, who was shortlisted for the award last year with her controversial story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, was chosen this year for her story In a Right State. Inspired by Alan Bennett’s account of a visit to A&E in the London Review of Books, it portrays one of the people Bennett described as “habitués” during one night in hospital.
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