Alistair Morgan was born in Johannesburg in 1971. In 2005 he completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town, where he was supervised by Damon Galgut. His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review and Prospect magazine, and in 2009 he was awarded an O.Henry Award, for his story ‘Icebergs’. In the same year he became the first non-American to win the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, an annual award given out in New York by the Paris Review. His debut novel ‘Sleeper’s Wake’ was short-listed for the Africa section of the 2010 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. He lives in Cape Town and is currently working on his second novel.His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review and Prospect magazine, and in 2009 he was awarded an O.Henry Award, for his story ‘Icebergs’. In the same year he became the first non-American to win the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, an annual award given out by the Paris Review. He lives in Cape Town and is currently working on his second novel.
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