Jenni Fagan, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Hanif Abdurraqib and Tabitha Lasley also in the running for prize to work of ‘dazzlingly bold and forward-thinking’ fiction or nonfiction
Novels by Sam Byers, Salena Godden, and Jenni Fagan have been shortlisted for this year’s Gordon Burn prize for “forward-thinking and fearless” literature. Byers’ Come Join Our Disease, Fagan’s Luckenbooth and poet Godden’s first foray into fiction, Mrs Death Misses Death, are joined on the six-book shortlist by the genre-blurring A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa and nonfiction titles A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib and Sea State by Tabitha Lasley.
All are in the running for a £5,000 cash prize and the chance to go on a writing retreat at Burn’s cottage in the Scottish Borders.
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