There was a cool NZ$57,000 up for grabs for the winner of the 2021 Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction. It was the first time a short-story collection has taken out the top fiction prize since 2008. Bug Week is a beautifully observed and fierce punch in the guts. I was forced to read books that I would otherwise have bypassed, and in some cases, I was pleasantly surprised by what I read. Like us, Orange was smitten with Bug Week and of it said: “I was consistently surprised by sentences, the beauty and singular language.

Source: The Guardian May 12, 2021 23:43 UTC