Judges salute a novel set in Belfast that ‘reveals truth about our recent history’
David Keenan’s For the Good Times, a book about Belfast and the Troubles that “reveals the truth about our recent history in a way documentary can’t”, has won the Gordon Burn prize.
Set up to honour the author Gordon Burn, who died in 2009, the award seeks to recognise “brilliant and unique work that audaciously dares to take both writer and reader to territories that shake their edges”. Burn’s works include Happy Like Murderers: The Story of Fred and Rosemary West, and the novels Fullalove and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel. Organisers of the prize described For the Good Times as “very much in the sensibility” of Burn, who “often blurred the line between fact and fiction [and] explored murky and ambiguous territories”.
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