An Elegy for Easterly Longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize
Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize. An Elegy is also on the shortlist of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The full list of contenders: The Secret Lives of Buildings Edward Hollis Direct Red Gabriel Weston The Strangest Man Graham Farmelo A Swamp Full of Dollars Michael Peel The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton The Wilderness Samantha Harvey The Girl With Glass Feet Ali Shaw The Selected Works of TS Spivet Reif Larsen An Elegy for Easterly Petina Gappah The Missing Siân Hughes The last time a Zimbabwean writer won the Guardian Fiction Prize was in 1979, when Dambudzo Marechera got it for House of Hunger .