The Story Prize named three finalists, with the winner to be announced on March 26:
Yiyun Li, Wednesday’s Child
Bennett Sims, Other Minds and Other Stories
Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey
The UK’s Writer’s Prize (FKA the Folio prize) named shortlists across three categories, with the winner and the Book of the Year to be named on March 13:
Fiction
Zadie Smith, The Fraud
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
Nonfiction
Laura Cumming, Thunderclap
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger
Mark O’Connell, A Thread of Violence
Poetry
Jason Allen-Paisant, Self-Portrait As Othello
Liz Berry, The Home Child
Mary Jean Chan, Bright Fear
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