Thursday 3 May 2007

Hisham Matar wins RSL Ondaatje Prize

Hisham Matar has won the fourth Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, worth £10,000, with In the Country of Men. It was presented on Monday at a dinner at the Travellers' Club in Pal Mall. The novel was praised by judge Ruth Padel for its "exact and imaginative prose".

Hisham celebrated with a cigarette and said: "As soon as you are aware of the result, the work is dead. Writing is the work of a servant." He went on to thank his editor Mary Mount, and his agent Kevin Conroy Scott of A P Watt. Read the short article in Publishing News.

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