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Petina Gappah, A L Kennedy and Rose Tremain are among the authors long-listed for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.
Twenty writers are competing for the world’s largest short story prize, worth £25,000, including Guardian First Book Award-winner Gappah alongside lesser known writers such as former glamour model Kay Sexton and actor Simon Robson. The judges include authors A S Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Lynn Barber, Nick Hornby and the literary editor of the Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate. The non-voting chair is Lord Matthew Evans, chairman of EFG Private Bank and a fomer chairman of Faber.
Kureishi said "This has been a fascinating and stimulating exercise. I’ve learnt a lot about what people are thinking and writing about at the moment. That for me was the pleasure of reading the long list."
The shortlist will be announced on 7th March and the winner revealed at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 26th March. The Award is administered by Booktrust.
The longlist in full:
· Richard Beard - James Joyce, EFL Teacher
· Nicholas Best - Souvenir
· Sylvia Brownrigg - Jocasta
· John Burnside - Slut's Hair
· Will Cohu - Nothing But Grass
· Joe Dunthorne - Critical Responses to My Last Relationship
· Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly
· Jackie Kay - Reality, Reality
· A.L. Kennedy - Saturday Teatime
· Adam Marek - Fewer Things
· Charles Mosley - Constraint
· Chris Paling - The Red Car
· Ron Rash - Burning Bright
· Simon Robson - Will There Be Lions?
· Kay Sexton - Anubis and the Volcano
· Helen Simpson - Diary of an Interesting Year
· C.K. Stead - Last Season's Man
· Rose Tremain - The Jester of Astapovo
· Gerard Woodward - Legoland
· David Vann - It's Not Yours