Young, 33, arrived at work last Thursday to find a "suspicious looking email" from Yale University about the Donald Windham-Sandy M Campbell Literature Prize. Unsure if it was a scam, and she strongly suspected it was, she forwarded it to her Victoria University Press boss, Fergus Barrowman, who told her to open it. She is the first New Zealander to receive a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and, like previous recipients in its five-year history, knew nothing about it until the email notification arrived. So why does Young write? The full list of this year's Windham-Campbell Prize recipients is: fiction, André Alexis and Erna Brodber; non-fiction, Maya Jasanoff and Ashleigh Young; poetry, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Carolyn Forche; drama, Marina Carr and Ike Holter.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 01, 2017 06:11 UTC