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Debut writers dominate the shortlist for the 2009 Frank O'Connor award for a collection of short stories, reports the Guardian, with four of the six shortlisted authors nominated for debut collections.
Debut writers on the list are the Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah, for An Elegy for Easterly; the US author Wells Tower for Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned; Malaysian Shih-Li Kow for Ripples and Other Stories; and Simon Van Booy for Love Begins in Winter.
The four are joined on the list for the £30,000 award by Philip O Ceallaigh for his second collection of short stories, The Pleasant Light of Day, and Charlotte Grimshaw, nominated for Singularity, who the Guardian reports is something of a veteran in this context, with two novels and a previous collection of short stories to her name.
The 2009 winner is due to be announced on 20th September 2009.