6/1/2023 0 Comments Raven leilani lusterPrevious Dylan Thomas prize winners include Bryan Washington, Guy Gunaratne and Max Porter. Leilani, who was also longlisted for this year’s Women’s prize, was announced as winner in a virtual ceremony on Thursday night. Leilani is an astonishingly original new voice,” said Gokhale. In August, were reading Raven Leilanis Luster (August 4)a novel about a 20-something aspiring artist named Edie, who finds herself in the middle of an open marriage with a man named Eric, a. This is an important, uncomfortable book, by turns funny and angry, and always compelling. The narrator Edie’s incisive eye for all registers of racist bias is unblinking and masterly. She described Luster – which was chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favourite books of last year – as “an accomplished and fearless novel that carries the ache, uncertainty and vulnerability as well as the harsh reality of being a young black woman in America. After many conversations and long deliberations, the jury unanimously decided on Luster,” said Gokhale. “It was a difficult decision as we had an exceptionally brilliant shortlist – all the books were potential winners. Leilani’s debut “stood out for the compelling narrative voice, and the unblinking quality of the writing,” said chair of judges Namita Gokhale, who, with her fellow judges, selected Luster from a shortlist which also featured Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa, and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji.
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