Six writers in running for £30,000 Sunday Times short story award

Stories set in a Zimbabwean hair stylist’s and on a Chinese nuclear base are among entries for the world’s richest prize for a single short story

The American short-story writer Edith Pearlman has reached the final stage of the world’s richest prize for a single short story.

Pearlman, whose stories have won her the National Book Critics Circle award and the PEN/Malamud award in the US, was shortlisted for the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG short story award for Unbeschert, the account of a marriage. “Plain competent woman, flirtatious feckless man, no money to speak of, who gained? Unbeschert – a misalliance,” she writes.

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