With details of the shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize:
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Shortlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize
2018
We’re thrilled to
announce the shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2018, as selected by the
prize judges: journalist and critic Alex Clark, writer Kei Miller, artist
Gillian Wearing and musician Andrew Weatherall.
The Gordon Burn Prize was founded in 2012 to
celebrate the legacy of the late Gordon Burn and to champion work –
fearless non-fiction and bold, genre-defying fiction – that follows in his
footsteps.
Previous winners of the prize include The Long Dropby Denise
Mina (2017); All That
Man Is by David Szalay (2016) and In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of
Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies (2015).
The six-strong 2018 shortlist represents some of the
most exciting fiction and non-fiction published in the UK and US today and
showcases a rich variety of work by pioneering writers. Restrictive terms
like true crime, auto fiction, science fiction and memoir are not
sufficient when describing work that defies categorisation and transcends
genre. Yet, for all their range of storytelling and diversity of
perspectives, a thread runs through these six books, each of them
recognised by the judges for demonstrating an affinity with the spirit,
preoccupations and artistry of Gordon Burn’s writing.
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The Gordon Burn Prize is
run in partnership by New Writing North, Durham Book Festival, Faber &
Faber and the Gordon Burn Trust. The
winner will be announced on Thursday 11 October 2018 at the Durham Book
Festival, a Durham County Council festival.
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