![]() If she’d been someone else, the prank might have seemed funny. So I’m particularly delighted that, from a brilliant shortlist, Sarah Hall, a virtuoso in this field, sees her long service in the short story game recognised again,” Speirs said.įreedland and Speirs were joined on the judging panel by the writers Lucy Caldwell, Irenosen Okojie and Chris Power. “To keep writing really excellent short stories requires audacity, invention and practice. ![]() ![]() It’s an incredible privilege and reward,” she said.īBC Audio books editor Di Speirs, who has judged the short story prize since its launch, said there were few authors who make even the shortlist for the award more than once Hall has been shortlisted four times. “No one expects to repeat a shortlisting, let alone be honoured with an award like this twice. ![]() On Tuesday, Hall said she was “stunned” to have won. I like reading stories that give you a huge wallop, one you don’t see on the surface. When I start out it usually stems from a thought, or something I heard in the news that gives me a shape. “It is a place for dark psychology and a potent literary dosage. “When you are limited to that kind of word count, it can be very hard,” she told the Observer in 2017. Hall, who has also twice been nominated for the Booker prize for her novels, has said in the past that short stories are harder to write. Hall, who beat writers including Eley Williams and Jan Carson to win the award, is “this country’s foremost writer of short stories”, said Freedland. ![]()
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