International Fiction Prize

Birds of America - Lorrie Moore

A native of New York state, Lorrie Moore attended St Lawrence and Cornell universities. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is the author of two other short story collections, Self- Help and Life-Like, and two novels, Anagrams, and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories and many other publications.

(Birds of America is published by Faber)

Short-listed:

Underworld by Don DeLillo; A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle; The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro.