BBC National Short Story Award
BBC National Short Story Award is a British literary award for short stories. It was founded in 2005 by the NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) with support from BBC Radio 4 and Prospect magazine.[1] The winner receives GB£15,000 for a single short-story.[1][2] The award was originally known as 'National Short Story Award' and renamed to 'BBC' starting in 2008 to reflect the current sponsor.[1]
The award has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story,[2] however the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is greater at GB£30,000.[3]
Normally the award is open to British authors only, in 2012 the award was opened to a global audience for one year only in honour of the 2012 Summer Olympics which were hosted in London.[4]
Winners
- 2006 – "An Anxious Man", James Lasdun
- 2007 – "The Orphan and the Mob", Julian Gough
- 2008 – "The Numbers", Clare Wigfall[2]
- 2009 – "The Not-Dead and the Saved", Kate Clanchy
- 2010 – "Tea at the Midland", David Constantine
- 2011 – "The Dead Roads", D. W. Wilson
- 2012 – "East of the West", Miroslav Penkov[4][5]
- 2013 – "Mrs Fox", Sarah Hall[6][7]
- 2014 – "Kilifi Creek", Lionel Shriver[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "BBC National Short Story Prize wepage". BBC. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Richard Lea (4 July 2008). "Field narrows in race for richest story award". The Guardian. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Staff writer (19 February 2012). "OMG: Text speak short story in running for £30,000 prize". The Telegraph. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alison Flood (September 14, 2012). "Deborah Levy joins shortlist for BBC international short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ↑ Alison Flood (3 October 2012). "Miroslav Penkov wins BBC international short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
- ↑ Liz Bury (8 October 2013). "Sarah Hall's tale of woman who turns into a fox wins BBC short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Sarah Hall wins the BBC National Short Story Award". BBC. 8 October 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Lionel Shriver wins BBC National Short Story Award". BBC News. September 30, 2014.