Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award2009

Given by Cork City Council

52 Works 9,932 Books 555 Reviews ½ 3.8
"In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's show more most beloved authors. ... The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival." - from web site show less
Stages:
All, Winner (11), Shortlist (50), Longlist (342)
Categories:
All, inaugural (1), No Category (402)
Years:
All, 2015 (9), 2014 (8), 2013 (71), 2012 (72), 2011 (57), 2010 (56), 2009 (52), 2008 (37), 2007 (6), 2006 (29), 2005 (6)

Winner 1

WorkYear
Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories (P.S.) by Simon Van Booy2009

Shortlist 5

WorkYear
The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip Ó Ceallaigh2009
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah2009
Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw2009
Ripples and other stories by Shih-Li Kow2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower2009

Longlist 46

WorkYear
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie2009
Lawless and Other Stories by Sefi Atta2009
Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales by Eleanor Bluestein2009
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell2009
Ugly Man, stories by Dennis Cooper2009
Nature's Magician by Anthony Cropper2009
Curry Is Thicker Than Water by Jasmime Anita Yvette D'Costa2009
Silent Girl (Iananna Poetry and Fiction) by Tricia Dower2009
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman2009
A Priceless Nest by Kristiina Ehin2009
Stone Tree by Gyðir Elíasson2009
Life In The Universe by Michael J. Farrell2009
Love Me Tender by Jane Feaver2009
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill2009
The Only Living Boy (Salt Modern Fiction S.) by Robert Graham2009
Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff2009
Amuse-gueule vroege verhalen by Arnon Grunberg2009
The White Road and Other Stories (Salt Modern Fiction) by Tania Hershman2009
Fierce by Hannah Holborn2009
Then We Saw the Flames: Stories by Daniel A. Hoyt2009
Rothkos Red: and other stories (Salt Modern Fiction) by Sue Hubbard2009
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro2009
Next Door Stories by Jahnavi Barua2009
The End Of The World by Sushma Joshi2009
Ballistics (Salt Modern Fiction S.) by Alex Keegan2009
One More Year: Stories by Sana Krasikov2009
The Scent of Cinnamon: and Other Stories (Salt Modern Fiction) by Charles Lambert2009
It's Beginning to Hurt: Stories by James Lasdun2009
Greenfly by Tom Lee2009
Our People: Stories by Ian MacMillan2009
A Little Javanese (Salt Modern Fiction) by Andre Mangeot2009
Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel2009
Last Known Position (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) by James Mathews2009
Liar, Liar by Alan McMonagle2009
Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks2009
I Love You When I'm Drunk by Empar Moliner2009
The Silence Room: Short Stories by Sean O'Brien2009
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories (P.S.) by Lydia Peelle2009
The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andrew Porter2009
Invite (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Glen Pourciau2009
Forgetting English by Midge Raymond2009
As Rivers Flow (Salt Modern Fiction S.) by John Saul2009
The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith2009
Elysium: & Other Stories by Pamela Stewart2009
Long Days by Maike Wetzel2009
Vanishing and Other Stories (P.S.) by Deborah Willis2009

Descriptions

"In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's most beloved authors. ... The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival." - from web site (English, Member-written)
The Munster Literature regrets to announce that the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is to be discontinued in 2016. The award was established in 2005 in an effort to increase the profile of the short story form on the literary scene, and to reward those who were judged to have written the best collection of stories that year. Serving our ethos of innovation and development, (English, Member-written)

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