Jill Dawson wins the runner-up in the New Angle Prize for her novel The Crime Writer, and wins £500. The judges enjoyed “a destabilising book in which you’re never quite sure what’s real, imagined, or simply the result of madness”. More details here. Continue reading…
The Crime Writer won both the novel section of the East Anglian Book Awards and overall Book of the Year More details here. Continue reading…
Jill Dawson’s latest novel The Tell-tale Heart has been included as one of the 80 books nominated for the Folio Prize for works of fiction published in 2014. The award is judged by 235 writers and critics who select the best novels of the year. The Folio Prize Academy’s role in selecting these 80 books is integral… Continue reading…
The Tell-Tale Heart is a Spectator Book of the Year, chosen by Sofka Zinovieff. ‘I’ve loved all Jill Dawson’s novels (especially Wild Boy) and The Tell-Tale Heart is another example of her powerful yet delicate, intelligent, haunting writing.’ Continue reading…
A panel of judges including Bloomsbury’s editorial director for fiction Helen Garnons-Williams, Sarah Chalfant of the Wylie Agency,the author Polly Samson and Bazaar’s columnist Sam Baker voted unanimously to award joint first prize in the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition to Fatima Bhutto and Jill Dawson. Dawson’s story can be read in the May edition… Continue reading…