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Sunday Times chooses best young writers
The Sunday Times has announced the shortlist for its Young Writer of the Year award, with The Truth about these Strange Times by Adam Foulds (Weidenfeld), Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking), The Book of Love by James McConnachie (Atlantic) and The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (Granta) all making it onto the list.
The £5000 award, which launched 17 years ago, is open to writers under 35 of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
The judges for this year’s award are Susannah Herbert (Sunday Times literary editor), Andrew Holgate (deputy literary editor) and Peter Kemp (fiction editor).
The winner will be announced at a lunch at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 6th April.
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