James Lasdun's VICTORY is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020
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Huge congratulations to James Lasdun on being one of the stellar shortlisted titles for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020! Victory (Cape) is an outstanding novel written in two novellas, exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption.
Paul Farley, chair of the judges, said: “The books shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020 tell stories and ask questions about how and why stories get told. They speak to their moment and take soundings from fellow writers, past and present. They record, investigate and explore.They navigate their way through various storms, they allow for doubts and uncertainties. Common themes might echo through their collective pages, but in the end each book is irreducibly its own craft and vessel.”
The Rathbones Folio Prize – also known as the Writers’ Prize – is the only prize governed by an international academy of distinguished writers and critics, the Folio Academy. It is borderless and open to all genres – fiction, non-fiction, and poetry – which means it reflects a greater diversity and variety of voices present in our literary culture and society as a whole.
This year’s prize is being judged by the multi award-winning poet and non-fiction writer Paul Farley, the Desmond Elliot Prize-winning novelist Nikita Lalwani and Ross Raisin, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year winner and a Granta Best of Young British Novelists.
The 2020 winner will be announced at the British Library on Monday, March 23rd. More info here.