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Elnathan John Makes The 2017 Betty Trask Prize Shortlist

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The Society of Authors has announced the 2017 shortlist for the Betty Trask Prize and Awards. This year’s shortlist of six debut literary novels by authors under the age of 35 includes Elnathan John’s  Born on a Tuesday  . The judges said of BOAT:  ‘A tough, topical, directly-written book, devoid of sentimentality, and yet engaging, troubling and sad. The sense of place is wholly immersive, conjuring the villages and roads of troubled Nigeria with a deft and effortless touch.’ Elnathan John  Other authors on the shortlist are: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – Harmless Like You (Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton), Kathleen Jowitt –  Speak its Name  (self-published), Rob McCarthy –  The Hollow Men  (Mulholland Books / Hodder & Stoughton), Barney Norris –  Five Rivers Meet on a Wooded Plain (Transworld) and Daniel Shand –  Fallow (Sandstone Press Limited).   The judges this year were authors Simon Brett, Michéle Roberts and Joanne Harris. Commenting on the shortlist, M