Longlist Hat Trick for Catherine O’Flynn

What Was Lost longlisted for Guardian First Book Award

24 August 2007

Catherine O’Flynn, who was longlisted last month for this year’s Man Booker Prize for What Was Lost, is also one of ten authors to be longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. What Was Lost was also longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

The Guardian First Book, established in 1999, is awarded to first-time authors of all genres. Previous novelists who have won the prize include Zadie Smith and Jonathan Safran Foer.

This year’s panel includes novelists Kamila Shamsie and Maggie O’Farrell; presenter and journalist Mariella Frostrup; Simon Jenkins, journalist and author; Phillippe Sands, QC and author and the Guardian’s features editor, Katharine Viner. Claire Armitstead, Literary Editor of the Guardian, will chair the panel.

The shortlist, of five books, agreed by the panel and the Waterstone’s readers’ groups, will be announced in early November and the overall winner in December. The winner will receive a prize of £10,000.

To see the full longlist and for more information about the Guardian First Book Award please visit www.guardian.co.uk

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