Gourevitch, the editor of New York-based literary journal, The Paris Review, had particularly good news: Morgan had won the Review's 2009 Plimpton Prize for Fiction. And he is the first non-American ever to do so.
The deputy creative director of Lowe Bull Cape Town will be heading to New York in April 2009 to receive the prize - and its US$10 000 purse - at the Review's annual fundraising event.
The Plimpton Prize for Fiction recognises the best new fiction writer to be published in the literary title during the previous year (www.parisreview.org). The judges, who included Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer and director of Syriana, were unanimous in their selection of Morgan's two published short stories: “Icebergs” and “Departure”.
Morgan's first novel, Sleeper's Wake, will be published later this year by Penguin.
