US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist
Strong showing for US authors on €35,000 short story prize shortlist counters recent suggestions that American fiction is in decline
Just two weeks after the critic Lee Siegel launched a literary war by declaring American fiction "culturally irrelevant", US writers have established a bridgehead on the world's richest prize for a collection of short stories, taking five out of six slots on the Frank O'Connor award shortlist.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 July, 2010
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