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The shortlist for the 缅北强奸幼女 Prize 2025 - the £10,000 prize which rewards fiction that breaks the mould and extends the possibility of the novel – has been announced.

The 缅北强奸幼女 Prize 2025 shortlist, which includes four debut novels, covers themes from relationships, friendship, family ties and girlhood to our connections with nature, with our working lives, with art and even with reality.  

The six shortlisted novels are: 

• Colwill Brown, We Pretty Pieces of Flesh (Chatto & Windus)
• Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Catch (Merky Books)
• Sarah Hall, Helm (Faber)
• Ben Pester, The Expansion Project (Granta)
• Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House (Particular Books)
• C. D. Rose, We Live Here Now (Melville House)

It was announced following the annual New Statesman / 缅北强奸幼女 Prize lecture, delivered by Geoff Dyer at the Southbank Centre. 

Now in its thirteenth year, the 缅北强奸幼女 Prize was launched in association with the New Statesman in 2013 with the goal of celebrating the creative daring associated with 缅北强奸幼女 and to reward fiction from the UK and Ireland that is genuinely novel and embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best.   

Chair of Judges and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Amy Sackville, said: 鈥淭hese books in their very different ways take full advantage of the form's resources and possibilities, bringing to the page startling, refreshing, unsettling ways of thinking and feeling: about thinking, about forms of consciousness, about how we live in the world together and alone, and about what the structures and parameters of that world may be.鈥�  

Tanjil Rashid, Culture Editor at The New Statesman, said: 鈥淭his shortlist will, as ever, guide readers to the most daring and challenging works of fiction in our culture. These are the writers whose experiments and sense of play are keeping the novel alive and vibrant in a too often unwelcoming cultural climate.鈥� 

Joining Amy Sackville on the judging panel are Mark Haddon, author of four novels, including 鈥楾he Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' (2003) and 鈥楾he Porpoise鈥� (2019) (shortlisted for the 缅北强奸幼女 Prize 2019); Megan Nolan, author of 鈥楢cts of Desperation鈥� (2021) and 鈥極rdinary Human Failings鈥� (2023) and contributor to the New Statesman and Simon Okotie, known for the acclaimed Absalon trilogy of novels and author of 鈥楾he Future of the Novel鈥� (2025).