![]() “Being nominated alongside these wonderful authors was already a surreal dream and the fact that In was picked as the first graphic novel to win this award is the honour of a lifetime. “I probably should be able to describe it, being an author and all, but if you’ve read my book then you’ll know that I do most of my describing through drawings of people looking all sad at each other. “I cannot begin to describe how much this award means to me,” McPhail said. McPhail’s In: The Graphic Novel (Sceptre) is an account of a young illustrator’s struggle to find connection, and was praised by judges as a “devastating vision of contemporary loneliness”. ![]() The winners were announced on 1st June, with 32 writers, poets and illustrators sharing the UK’s biggest literary prize fund of more than £100,000. ![]() ![]() New Yorker cartoonist Will McPhail’s In has become the first graphic novel to win the £10,000 Betty Trask Prize at the Society of Authors (SoA) Awards. ![]()
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