Shortlist 2015: Dundee International Book Prize Finalists

by Clarissa N. Goenawan, Melanie Napthine, Martin Cathcart Froden

The Dundee International Book Prize awards £10,000 and a publishing deal with Cargo Publishing to the best unpublished novels in the world. The award is now running for the 11th year and receives entries from across the globe. Inside these pages are extracts from all 10 of the shortlisted books, from which the final winner will be chosen. The winner will be announced at the Dundee Literary Festival in October - for more details go to www.literarydundee.co.uk
The Dundee International Book Prize is a joint venture by the University of Dundee (www.dundee.ac.uk) and Dundee. One City, Many Discoveries (www.dundee.com)
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107 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 3, 2015

About the author

Clarissa Nathania Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer. She studied novel-writing with Curtis Brown Creative and was a mentee in the WoMentoring Project. Her short stories have won several awards and been published in various literary magazines and anthologies.

Her first novel Rainbirds won the 2015 Bath Novel Award (UK), and was shortlisted for the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize (UK), the 2015 SFWP Literary Award (US), and the First Novel Prize 2016 (UK). It will be published in late 2017 by Soho Press.

Reviews

[Carole · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Life Out of Key by Aesa Strand Vidarsdottir (Iceland) was an excellent story, but most of the rest were not very interesting.

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some interesting and promising excerpts here.