Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023

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NOMINATED FOR REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUNESS PRIZE, 2023‘He began to understand that his present life was not a life at all, but something that had to be endured before a life could commence. It was as though he was before a window, and…

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How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead?This is the question which takes a mother on a journey of self-discovery. When her daughter Yinka dies, Mojisola is finally forced to stop running away from the difficulties in their…

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“Missouri Williams is a formidably talented writer, whose dark prognostications are both thrilling and frightening to behold.” – Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten“The Doloriad comes in hot like a blazing comet…

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The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three…

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There is a story about a meatball which comes out of nowhere, hitting some people’s heads and changing their lives forever. There is a mouse that gets caught while trying to find a cheesy snack. There has been a 100% increase in the…

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An inventive and genre-bending new novel from a master of the form, exploring the legacy of past exploitation and present-day authorship: who should be remembered and who should tell their story.Still Life juggles with our perception…

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My Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching his fiftieth birthday who is haunted by insomnia and his past. In the dead of night, he remembers his friends who died in the late 1980s and…

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A showcase, ransacked with horrid delight:Fowler's MUEUM presents the placid, lurid violencesof surveillance and exhibition with startling and brutal stylishness.A seething triumph.         …

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In I'm A Fan a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithful relationship as a prism through which to examine the complicated hold we each have on one another. With a clear and unforgiving…

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Translated from Vietnamese by Nguyễn An LýWinner of an English Pen AwardAn unfinished love story, humorous and haunting, of diasporic lives in Vietnam and France.The Métro shudders to a halt: an unattended bag has been…