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Wigfall wins short story award

14.07.08 Anna Richardson

Clare Wigfall has won this year’s BBC National Short Story Award for her story “The Numbers”, with Jane Gardam taking the runner-up prize for “The People on Privilege Hill”.

They beat fellow shortlisted authors Richard Beard (“Guidelines for Measures to Cope with Disgraceful and Other Events”), Erin Soros (“Surge”) and Adam Thorpe (“The Names”).

The £15,000 prize, which is the richest for a single short story, was announced at a ceremony at the BAFTA HQ in London today (14th July), broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s “Today” programme. 

Chair of the judging panel, broadcaster and writer Martha Kearney, said: “Clare’s evocation of superstition and frustrated lives on a remote Scottish island is an act of historical ventriloquism. She shows just what the short story can achieve, conjuring up a whole world in microcosm.”

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