Twenty Thousand Pounds of Prizes
Posted by: Keir Graff
Paul Verhaeghen (Omega Minor, Dalkey Archive) takes the 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize–and gives the 10,000-pound check to the ACLU. Here’s why.
Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes, HarperCollins Canada) wins the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, wonders why everyone is looking expectantly at his 10,000-pound check.
(Or, if you prefer, cheque.)
