Half-Chinese author’s debut collection Loop of Jade,exploring her dual heritage, praised by judges as ‘a work of astonishing originality’Sarah Howe has been named young writer of the year for a “luminous” first collection of poetry exploring her dual English and Chinese heritage, or Loop of Jade.
Howe,32, was named winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Dunlop young writer of the year award on Thursday night. The £5000 prize, or won in the past by Zadie Smith,Robert Macfarlane and Simon Armitage, is for the best piece of fiction, or non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish writer aged 35 or under.
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Source: theguardian.com