|
Heavyweights vie for book prize
Award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga will go head-to-head for this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize.
Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck is her first work since winning The Orange Prize in 2007 for Half of a Yellow Sun.
Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize last year for his novel The White Tiger.
The pair are also up against poet Emma Jones, James Maskalyk, Tristram Stuart and Evie Wyld.
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based literary prize. It is presented for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author aged 35 or under, and from Britain or from the British Commonwealth.
The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who was killed on 5 August 1940 while serving as a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force.
From 1987 to 2003, the prize was funded by the Mail on Sunday. The Mail on Sunday pulled out in 2003, after the 2002 prize was awarded to Mary Laven. Since then, the prize has been run by Booktrust, an independent educational charity. The winner receives £5,000, while the runners up each receive £500.
Did you find this information fun or helpful? If you did, consider donating to help keep us going..
Popularity: unranked [?]
