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Gurnah to chair DRF Award judging panel
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah will chair the judges panel for the Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) Writers Award 2023.
He will be joined by Claire Adam, the award-winning Trinidadian novelist behind Golden Child (Faber & Faber), and Annalena McAfee, the writer and journalist who founded the Guardian Review.
The award is presented to a first-time prose writer whose submission demonstrates literary talent and who would benefit from financial support to complete their work. Submissions can be made until 31st March.
A shortlist of three will be announced in October and the award will be presented in London later that month. The winner of the award, which seeks work-in-progress fiction or non-fiction between 15,000 and 20,000 words, will receive £10,000 while two runners-up will receive £1,000 each.
The winner of the 2022 DRF Writers Award was Mathelinda Nabugodi for The Trembling Hand, a work of non-fiction to be published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and Knopf in the US in 2024.
