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Christopher Meeks nominated for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award!
2009 at 9am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Christopher Meeks, one of my favorite authors to work with and the very first author who asked me to review his book here at The Book Lady’s Blog (way back when it had a different name), has been nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award!
Chris was nominated for his collection Months & Seasons (my review here), which many of us in the blogosphere have loved and raved about. How wonderful to see a great author recognized among some very big names!
Here’s a part of the email I (and, I’m sure, many of you) received from Chris this morning:
My most recent short story collection Months and Seasons is up for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. It’s a prize from Ireland, the most lucrative short story award around, which Jumpra Lahiri won last year for Unaccustomed Earth.
Leading names on this year’s list include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, winner of the (British) National Short Story Award and former judge for the Frank O’Connor Award James Lasdun, multiple prize-winning poet Sean O’Brien and previously short-listed authors Philip O Ceallaigh and Charlotte Grimshaw. And there I am.
You can see the list here.
At €35,000 the award is the largest in the world for the short story form and monetarily is greater than the Costa Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize.
The shortlist of six will be decided in late June with the winner announced on September 20th at the close of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival in Cork.
The judges are Lloren A. Foster, an Assistant Professor of English at Hampton University; Milka Jankowska who co-ordinates the International Short Story Festival in Wroclaw, Poland; and award-winning Irish author Vincent McDonnell.
Months and Seasons contains a dozen stories. With a combination of main characters from young to old and with drama and humor, the tales pursue such people as a supermodel who awakens after open-heart surgery, a famous playwright who faces a firestorm consuming the landscape, a reluctant man who attends a Halloween party as Dracula, and a New Yorker who thinks she’s a chicken. You can get a taste of one story here.
So, please join me in congratulating Chris on this awesome recognition and sending out happy thoughts and best wishes for his continued success!
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