July sees the publication of Yiyun Li’s short story A Sheltered Woman, winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2015. Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Mei’s life – a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment. Read more…
The Folio Prize has revealed the 80 books nominated by The Folio Prize Academy for consideration by this year’s Folio Prize judges, and an extraordinary eight of them are 4th Estate titles – that’s 10% of the nominations! Read more…
Short stories really hit the big time in Britain in the Victorian and modernist period – at exactly the same time that the professional woman writer became a force to be reckoned with. The two have been wed ever since in a spectacularly successful union. The BBC short story award had an all-woman shortlist this year, as it did the year before. And, as usual, the 4th Estate list showcases some of the very best female short story writers around.
Read the title story from Yiyun Li’s Frank O’Connor Short Story Award shortlisted collection ‘Gold Boy Emerald Girl’
Fantastic news! GOLD BOY, EMERALD GIRL by Yiyun Li has been shortlisted for the prestigious FRANK O’CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD, the world’s largest short story award.
The shortlist is as follows:
GOLD BOY, EMERALD GIRL by Yiyun Li
