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The longlist of nominations have been announced yesterday for the Frank O’Connor award. The Frank O’Connor award is known for being the world’s richest prize for a collection of short stories.

There are 34 names that are in the running for the €35,000 prize. The award is open to any collection of short stories published in English anywhere in the world for the first time between September 2006 and August 2007. This is the third year the award is given out with Asians winning the first two awards though there are no Asians nominated for this year’s award. The past winners were Li Yiyun’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) and Haruki Murakami’s Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow (2006).

The entire list can be viewed at the official website of the award. A shortlist will be announced in July 2007. And the award will be given out in September 2007.

For more information about the award, you can go to the official website.

(via Guardian Unlimited)

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