This year's shortlisted authors for The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award are Harriet Baker for Rural Hours (Allen Lane), Moses Mckenzie for Fast by the Horns (Wild Fire), Scott Preston for The Borrowed Hills (John Murray), and Ralf Webb for Strange Relations (Sceptre).
The award is the UK and Ireland’s most influential prize for emerging literary talent across fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Since its inception in 1991, it has been committed to finding the most talented young writers that represent the best in British and Irish writing, including previous winners Sally Rooney, Jay Bernard, Raymond Antrobus and Max Porter.
Zadie Smith is a critically acclaimed writer of novels, essays, short stories and more, including White Teeth, NW, Swing Time, On Beauty and Intimations. She won this award in 2001.
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is given annually to the best work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged 35 or under.
The winner of this year's award will be announced on Tue 18 Mar.
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