De Kretser shortlisted for 2023 Folio Prize

Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for the UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize.

De Kretser is shortlisted in the fiction category for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U).

The titles shortlisted for the award are:

Fiction

• Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Chatto & Windus)
• Pure Colour (Sheila Heti, Harvill Secker)
• Emergency (Daisy Hildyard, Fitzcarraldo)
• Scary Monsters (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)
• Lucy by the Sea (Elizabeth Strout, Viking)

Nonfiction

• The Passengers (Will Ashon, Faber)
• In Love (Amy Bloom, Granta)
• The Escape Artist (Jonathan Freedland, John Murray Press)
• Constructing a Nervous System (Margo Jefferson, Granta)
• The Social Distance Between Us (Darren McGarvey, Ebury Press)

Poetry

• Quiet (Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Faber)
• Ephemeron (Fiona Benson, Jonathan Cape)
• Cane, Corn & Gulley (Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Out-Spoken Press)
• England’s Green (Zaffar Kunial, Faber)
• Manorism (Yomi Sode, Penguin Poetry).

This year’s expanded shortlists are broken into three genre categories for the first time. Each category winner will receive £2000 (A$3496) and will be in with a chance of winning the overall prize of £30,000 (A$52,444).

All the books considered for the prize are nominated by the Folio Academy, an international group of writers and critics, and the award is open to any English-language book regardless of form.

Last year, Irish writer Colm Tóibín won the overall prize for his novel The Magician (Picador).

The 2023 winner will be announced at a ceremony at the British Library on 27 March. For more information about the prize, see the Folio Prize website.

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