Writer click price almost to trash

sydney - The Australian writer Helen Garner initially thought that she was fooled when she received an email with the message that she had won a literary prize of $ 150,000. The amount was related to the totally unknown Windham-Campbell Prize. They only had to give her phone number here, something you should never do. Her finger hovering above all the 'wegkliktoets.

With the last bit of doubt began to call: her publisher and the sender of the mail, Yale University in the US state of Connecticut. Only after holding the 73-year-old writer found out that the price does exist.,, I was stunned and almost fell over from shock , said Garner against the newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald.

The award was established in 2014 from the estate of author Donald Windham, in memory of his wife Sandy Campbell. However, the organization is not aware of shortlisted candidates for the prize, making the award, as it were coming out of nowhere.