Musa Okwonga’s In the End it Was All About Love, and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water are on the longlist for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize.
The award, in honor of Gordon Burn, an English writer who passed away in 2009, celebrates fiction or non-fiction written in the English language. The prize was launched in 2013. It is jointly organised by the Gordon Burn Trust, New Writing North and Faber & Faber. Previous winners include David Keenan, Jesse Ball, Denise Mina, David Szalay, Dan Davies, Paul Kingsnorth, and Benjamin Myers.
Denise Mina is the chair of the judging panel for this year’s prize. Mina is accompanied by literary journalist and editor Sian Cain, novelist and short story writer Irenosen Okojie, and writer and poet Derek Owusu.
The winning author will receive £5,000 and the chance to undertake a writing retreat of up to three months at Gordon Burn’s cottage in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. The winner will be revealed at the Durham Book Festival in October 2021.
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