Black Butterflies by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been shortlisted for both the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Royal Society of Literature / Ondaatje Prize. Published by Duckworth Books last year, Black Butterflies is also currently shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Priscilla (pictured) grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian […]
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Priscilla Morris longlisted for Ondaatje Prize
UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been longlisted for the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize for her first novel Black Butterflies, which was published by Duckworth in 2022. Priscilla (pictured) grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, […]
Ruth Gilligan shortlisted for RSL/Ondaatje Prize
The Butchers by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan has been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, which is worth £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. The novel was published by Atlantic Books last year. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and […]
