Tom Crewe and Noreen Masud shortlisted for Young Writer of the Year Award 2024
Tom Crewe and Noreen Masud have been shortlisted for Young Writer of the Year Award 2024. Tom Crewe is in the running for his debut about "19th-Century forbidden desire", The New Life (Vintage), which won the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature, and was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Noreen Masud is competing for the award with her "raw and radical" autobiography, A Flat Place (Hamish Hamilton), which is also longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024.
The Charlotte Aitken Trust has increased the prize sum to £10,000. Each shortlistee also receives £1,000. The winner will be announced in a ceremony at Canova Hall in Brixton, London, on 19th March 2024.
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