Saturday, March 08, 2014

Story Prize Winner

Shelf Awareness

Photo: Beowulf Sheehan
Wednesday night, George Saunders won the $20,000 Story Prize, honoring the best short story collection of the year, for Tenth of December (Random House). The other finalists, who each received $5,000, were Andrea Barrett (l.) for Archangel (Norton) and Rebecca Lee (r.) for Bobcat (Algonquin). At the event at the New School in New York City, all three read from and discussed their works with Story Prize director Larry Dark. Then Story Prize founder Julie Lindsey announced that Saunders had won. 

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