2011 Paris Literary Prize Winner
ROSA RANKIN-GEE, 24, graduated in Modern Languages in 2010 and took a summer job as a private cook on Sark, a Channel Island. There she took notes for her novella, The Last Kings of Sark. She moved to Paris to write it. Rosa has previously published short stories and was one of Esquire Magazine’s 75 Brilliant Young Brits 2010. In February, Rosa and Jethro Turner created The Book Club at Le Carmen, where up to 300 people gather on the last Wednesday of every month to drink, dance and swap books. This is to raise funds for A Tale of Three Cities, an Arts journal celebrating London, Paris and Berlin, which the team hopes to launch this autumn. www.taleofthree.com
2011 Paris Literary Prize Runners-up
ADAM BILES, 30, is a writer, translator and intermittent journalist based in Paris. His short stories and poetry have been published in Vestoj, Chimera and other journals. Between 2007 and 2009, he was the Paris correspondent and contributing editor of Ling, a magazine about European cities, for which he wrote on such diverse subjects as taxidermy; carousels; Henry Miller, Brassai; psychogeography; and the River Seine. Adam hopes to have his first full length novel (working title: Feeding Time) completed by the autumn.
AGUSTIN MAES, 42, was born in New Mexico and grew up near San Francisco. His fiction has appeared in Blue Mesa Review, The Gallatin Review, Turnrow, Ontario Review as a finalist for the Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize in Short Fiction, and was translated into Arabic for the Albawtaka Review. His work is in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2007 and was in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007. Maes was an assistant editor for Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, and the 2009-10 Milton Center at Image Fellow at Seattle Pacific University. He holds an MFA from The New School in New York City and a MA in theology from the University of San Francisco.
2011 Paris Literary Prize Short List Winners
Adam Biles: Grey Cats
Lynette D'Amico: Road Trip
Matt Davis: Rotten
Raymond Else: My Father's Lies
Jeffrey Hayden: Jota: Memoir of an Autist as a Young Girl
Alan Howard: Hollywood Furs
Agustin Maes: Newborn
Zach Maher: The Substance of his House for Love
Anthony Marra: The Tsar of Love and Techno
Rebecca Munson: Lafayette Square
Jason Porter: Why Are You So Sad?
Rosa Rankin-Gee: The Last Kings of Sark
Alexander Starritt: The Wellsprings of Desire
