The White Review Short Story Prize, sponsored by RCW, is an annual short story competition for emerging writers. The prize awards £2,500 to the best piece of short fiction...
The author of novels, short stories, essays, a movie script, and graphic novels, Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, in 1975. Beauty Is a Wound (New Directions) and Man Tiger (Verso) were published to acclaim last year.
El Polaco appears brandishing his Stanley, as he lovingly calls his pocket knife. Five young hooligans huddle round him like classroom students. He leaves...