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Christopher Fowler’s "modest, funny and brilliant" memoir about life growing up in postwar Britain has won the inaugural Green Carnation prize.
Paperboy (Doubleday) was awarded the prize today (1st December). The award was set up to celebrate writing by gay men.
Fowler’s memoir beat shortlisted titles Man’s World by Rupert Smith (Arcadia), Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer (Granta), God Says No by James Hannaham (McSweeney’s) and London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp (Myriad).
Chair of judges, writer Paul Magrs said "Paperboy is about the forming of a gay sensibility—but more than that, it’s about the growth of a reader and a wonderfully generous and inventive writer.
"It’s a great wodge of social history—of back-to-back houses, plasticine models and exercise books, and how Lois Lane’s adventures were always more interesting than Superman’s. It’s modest, funny and brilliant."