CK Stead chosen for top literary prize

Published: 9:18PM Sunday March 07, 2010

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New Zealand author CK Stead has been shortlisted for a new British literary short story prize.

The list of six writers from England, Wales, Zimbabwe, USA and New Zealand, competing for the STG25,000 ($54,318) Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award was announced in Britain.

Stead was chosen for his short story Last Season's Man.

The other authors and their works are:

Will Cohu - Nothing but Grass;
Joe Dunthorne - Critical Responses to My Last Relationship;
Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly;
Adam Marek - Fewer Things; and
David Vann - It's Not Yours.

The Sunday Times award was a new annual literary prize.

The judges are novelist and poet A S Byatt; novelist, director and playwright Hanif Kureishi; interviewer and writer Lynn Barber; author Nick Hornby; and the literary editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate.

Byatt said it was quite a task to make the final selection from the large number of entries.

"But that choice is a testament to the liveliness and new inventiveness of the form. We had wonderful examples of polished conventional stories and others written with new kinds of ideas."

The winner of the prize will be announced at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on March 26.

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