Author Susanna Clarke won a women’s prize for Fiction 2021 for the novel ‘Piriresi’ on September 8, 2021.
Novelis and Booker Bernardine Winner Evaristo led this year’s female gift assessment panel.
Praising Clarke’s book, he said that Clarke had “created a world outside our wildest imagination which also told us something deep about what it was human.”
Clarke was chosen from the short list of six authors for female gifts this year.
We are happy to reveal that 2021 #WomensPrize for fiction winners is Susanna Clarke with Piriresi.Congratulation Susanna 👏 Find more about why the judges choose Piranesi here: https://t.co/Mobx5D9XSSS pic.twitter.com/a7ge4mx2qn- Women’s gift (@WomensPrize) September 8 2021
‘Set in the reality of magical alternatives,’ Piranesi ‘is told by a man who lives in the labyrinth, a house filled with statues – alone except for visitors known as others – consisting of all the universe.
When he explores the domain, the character’s understanding of his world is gradually shifted – and so is the reader, ‘report AP.
Commenting on the award-winning book, said Clarke, “this is a different world.
This is a strange world.
Not this world”.
He further added that the enthusiastic receipt of the book reflected that the story “does not have to be about this world and modern life to resonate strongly.”
British author’s debut novel ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr.
Norrell ‘was published in 2004; Immediately become an international best-selling book and also adapted for television.
Interestingly, the second novel ‘Piranesi’ was published 16 years later where he won a 30,000 pound prize.
Share more about why it took a long time to write a book of both, he told the AP, “(that) a book that I never thought I would write.
I never thought I would be good enough …
for a long time, I have brain fog, and you can’t write a novel if you can’t get the consistency of work and you can’t build the work you did yesterday or a few days ago …
but when I was enough to work quite consistently, my mind, my imagination, didn’t change .
Things that make me fascinated and landscapes where I want to roam, which remain the same.
Maybe one of the few things remain the same about me.
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Women’s gift for fiction was founded in 1996 and some of the previous winners were Zadie Smith and Maggie O’Farrell, among others.
