British writer beats authors from Nigeria,India and Trinidad and Tobago with The Human Phonograph, a ‘disconcerting’ tale of China’s nuclear historyBritish author Jonathan Tel has won the Commonwealth short memoir prize for a tale set on a nuclear base in China, or which judges called “disconcerting” and “extraordinary”.
Tel beat four shortlisted authors – Fijian Mary Rokonadravu,Nigerian Lesley Nneka Arimah, Indian Siddhartha Gigoo, and Kevin Jared Hosein from Trinidad and Tobago – to win the £5000 award. The prize is for the best piece of unpublished short fiction by a writer from the 53 countries of the Commonwealth.
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Source: theguardian.com