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SA ad creative scoops international literary prize
Lowe Bull Cape Town's Alistair Morgan last month received an email from Philip Gourevitch, the editor of New York-based literary journal The Paris Review, that, on a scale of one to 10, was a definite 10 - the kind of email which makes you switch off your laptop for the day and go out celebrating.
Alistair Morgan, deputy creative director of Lowe Bull Cape Town and winner of the 2009 Plimpton Prize for Fiction.
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.
