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Buckley, De Marcken win 2022 Novel Prize

Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced UK author Jonathan Buckley and US author Anne de Marcken as the joint winners of the 2022 Novel Prize, for their novels Tell and It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over.

Jonathan Buckley’s Tell, ‘structured as a series of interview transcripts with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide’, is ‘a thrilling novel of strange, intoxicating immediacy’.

Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is described as ‘a spare, haunting novel that asks how much of your memory, of your body, of the world as you know it—how much of what you love can you lose before you are lost? And then what happens?’

Established in 2020, the Novel Prize offers US$10,000 (A$14,960) to the winner in the form of an advance against royalties, as well as simultaneous publication in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, and North America.

The winners were chosen from a shortlist, announced in January, that included Australia-based author Florina Enache. The winner of the inaugural Prize was Melbourne-based author Jessica Au for Cold Enough for Snow.

 

Category: International news