Thursday, July 09, 2015

Frank O’Connor award won by 'truly original' stories

Frank O’Connor award won by 'truly original' stories of Carys Davies

The Redemption of Galen Pike takes €25,000 prize for the year’s best short story collection
Carys Davies
Carys Davies said she was ‘delighted, grateful, and completely astonished’ Photograph: Jonathan Bean
The Welsh author Carys Davies has won the Frank O’Connor international short story award for her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike.

The €25,000 (£18,000) prize, the world’s most lucrative for a single collection of short stories, has been won in the past by some of the genre’s biggest names, including Haruki Murakami and Edna O’Brien. Davies, who now lives in Lancaster, beat writers including the American authors Karen E Bender and Tony Earley, and the British writer Kirsty Gunn, to win this year’s prize.
Her collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, is published by the small UK independent press Salt. Its subjects span the world, with stories set everywhere from a remote Australian settlement, where a young wife has a secret, to a Colorado jail, where a Quaker woman meets a condemned man in his final hours in the title story.
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