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Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 Winners

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Congratulations to the winners of this year's Rathbones Folio Prizes!

Last Sunday, judges Ali Smith, Jackie Kay and Guy Gunaratne announced the winners of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize at the Britsh Library. Congratulations to: Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System for winning Book of the Year and the Non-Fiction Category; to Michelle de Krester's Scary Monsters for winning the Fiction Category and to Victoria Adukwei Bulley for winning the Poetry Category with her collection Quiet.

From the publisher:
'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.'Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upside down - just as migration has upended her characters' lives.Lyle works for a sinister…

From the publisher:
Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the YearShortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and intellectual formation.As she…

From the publisher:
Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s debut poetry collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one’s ‘inner life’ and the…

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