Van Booy Wins Frank O’Connor Award for Short Story Collection

Mark Pritchard bio ↓ · September 21st, 2009 · filed under books

British writer Simon Van Booy has won “the world’s richest short story prize”, the Frank O’Connor award, for his collection Love Begins in Winter.

Van Booy, who lives in New York and is also the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, receives €35,000.

This is the fifth time the Frank O’Connor prize — named for the Irish author — has been awarded. Previous winners include Yiyun Li, Haruki Murakami, and Jhumpa Lahiri.

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Mark Pritchard is the author of the novel How They Scored and the collections of sex stories "Too Beautiful" and "How I Adore You." He lives in San Francisco. More from this author →

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