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Literature. Fiction. This year's six shortlisted stories for the world's richest short story prize, the �30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's most prestigious and richest short story prize, worth �30,000 to the winner. Past winners and shortlisted authors have included the Pulitzer winners Junot D�az, Anthony Doerr and Adam Johnson, plus Hilary Mantel, Ali Smith, Yiyun Li, CK Stead and Elizabeth Strout. Six Shorts 2017 brings together the six stories shortlisted for this year's award: 'Reputation Management' by Kathleen Alcott; 'Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows about Horses' by Bret Anthony Johnston; 'The Hazel Twig and the Olive Tree' by Richard Lambert; 'The Tenant' by Victor Lodato; 'Every Little Thing' by Celeste Ng; and 'Mr Salary' by Sally Rooney. Chosen by a hugely experienced and prestigious judging panel that included Booker-winner Anne Enright, Orange- and Whitbread-winner Rose Tremain, Booker-shortlistee Neel Mukherjee and critic and novelist Mark Lawson, the six stories represent the very best in contemporary English-language short fiction.… (more)