Fragile Animals shortlisted for Betty Trask Prize!
Huge news as Fragile Animals, the thrilling debut novel by Genevieve Jagger, has been shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize.
The Betty Trask Prize is presented for a first novel by a writer under 35, judged by Andrew Cowan, Daisy Lafarge and Stephanie Sy-Quia.
Bonnie Burke-Patel for I Died at Fallow Hall (Bedford Square Publishers)
Madeline Docherty for Gender Theory (John Murray)
Genevieve Jagger for Fragile Animals (404 Ink)
Ashani Lewis for Winter Animals (Dialogue Books)
Elizabeth O’Connor for Whale Fall (Pan Macmillan, Picador)
Nicolas Padamsee for England is Mine (Profile Books, Serpent’s Tail)
Judge Andrew Cowan said:
‘Whether politically urgent, exquisitely lyrical, or strange and surreal; whether expansive or economical, comic or introspective, set now or in the past, each of these skilful novels is brimming with wit and invention. Together they demonstrate the wonderfully open-ended possibilities for the contemporary novel.’
You can read more at the Society of Authors’ website.
