The poetry shortlist is entirely female, with rapper and novelist Kate Tempest nominated for her collection Let Them Eat Chaos, alongside Alice Oswald, Denise Riley and Melissa Lee-Houghton, who is published by independent press Penned in the Margins.
The book by Trévien follows in the footsteps of Pelt, Sarah Jackson's "assured and mysterious" debut poetry collection nominated in 2011, and Down the Rabbit Hole, a novel by Juan Pablo Villalobos, the first readers' choice, which made the 2010 shortlist.
His last collection was nominated for the National Book Award, and the three or four stories that I've seen from the new collection that's coming out here are, I think, some of his strongest work ever.
His collection was nominated for a National Book Award.
It includes Luke Kennard - at 26 he's the youngest poet ever nominated for the best collection category.
David Gates, a fiction nominee last year, was again nominated, for his story collection "The Wonders of the Invisible World".
The collection was nominated by the BFI, which has recently restored all nine films, and showcased them, many with newly commissioned scores, during its Hitchcock retrospective last summer.
Also nominated in the best collection prize is Christopher Reid, for an intensely personal and, at times, heartbreaking volume of poems about the illness and death of his wife Lucinda.
The collection was nominated for a 2010 Northern California Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category.
Narrative Magazine: Gail Godwin is the author of thirteen novels--three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award--two collections of short stories, and a book of nonfiction.
