The winner of the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction is A.M. Homes for May We Be Forgiven (Granta).
The announcement was made at an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London – hosted by Chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction board, Kate Mosse. The 2013 Chair of Judges, Miranda Richardson, presented the author with the £30,000 prize and the ‘Bessie’, a limited edition bronze figurine. Both are anonymously endowed.
Miranda Richardson, Chair of Judges, said: “Our 2013 shortlist was exceptionally strong and our judges’ meeting was long and passionately argued, but in the end we agreed that May We Be Forgiven is a dazzling, original, viscerally funny black comedy – a subversion of the American dream. This is a book we want to read again and give to our friends."
About A.M. Homes
A.M. Homes is the author of two collections of short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the novels Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, Jack and the bestselling This Book Will Save Your Life, and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter, all published by Granta Books. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She wrote and produced for the television series The L Word and is currently developing a major US TV series for HBO called The Hamptons. She lives in New York City.
May We Be Forgiven
Harry has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George – a taller, smarter and more successful high-flying TV executive – acquire a covetable wife, two kids and a beautiful home. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives, in which they both must seek absolution.
h2. Get involved
* A.M. Homes will be joining Women’s Prize co-founder and best-selling novelist Kate Mosse in a Google+ hangout at 3pm on Thursday 6 June. They will be joined by A.M. Homes’ publisher Philip Gwyn Jones and literary journalist Robert McCrum. You can join the discussion.
* Tell us what you think of the winning title on the Google Plus Women’s Prize for Fiction Book Club, where you can also read what the Official Women’s Prize for Fiction reading groups thought of this year’s shortlist. You can also share you thoughts in the comments box below.
