Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Shipwreck, Survival and Love by Sophie Elmhirst has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Nero Gold Prize.
The judges said: ‘A captivating gem of creative non-fiction writing that grips both as a human survival story, and as a profound, almost mythical tale of the wide blue yonder and the things that sustain us in times of crisis.’
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Sophie Elmhirst is a journalist. She writes regularly for the Guardian Long Read and the Economist’s 1843 magazine, among others. In 2020, she won the British Press Award for Feature Writer of the Year, and a Foreign Press Award for Finance and Economics Story of the Year.
Maurice and Maralyn is Sophie Elmhirst’s first book.
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