An unnerving story of grief and high-school sex has won the world's most valuable short story prize.
Junot Diaz won the £30,000 (about US$45,696) Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for for "Miss Lora," which Andrew O'Hagan, novelist and one of the judges, said "has the feel of a contemporary classic" and "echoes in the heart as well as the mind."
This an informative link to why the judges chose this story, a quote from Diaz why he wrote this story, and a video interview talking to this story. http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-blog...
Junot Diaz won the £30,000 (about US$45,696) Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for for "Miss Lora," which Andrew O'Hagan, novelist and one of the judges, said "has the feel of a contemporary classic" and "echoes in the heart as well as the mind."
This an informative link to why the judges chose this story, a quote from Diaz why he wrote this story, and a video interview talking to this story.
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-blog...