'The Man Who Got Out of Japan' wins Eyelands Book Awards Prize for an unpublished historical novel

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January 16, 2020

Sophie Neville's newly finished manuscript, The Man Who Got Out of Japan, has won the prize in the international Eyelands Book Award in for an unpublished novel.

Results were announced on 20th December 2019 with an award ceremony in Athens planned for May 2020.

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Sophie Neville wins another literary award for her unpublished historical novel

January 21, 2020

Sophie Neville's recently completed story of 'The Man Who Got Out of Japan' has won the Eyelands Book Awards prize for an unpublished historical novel . This is her third international literary award for this wartime romance. Formally entitled 'Makorongo's War', it won A Woman's Write 2019 and grand prize of U$2,500 for the Athanatos novel writing award.

'The Man Who Got Out of Japan' by Sophie Neville has just won the 2019 Grand Prize in A Woman’s Write competition for best unpublished novel.

January 16, 2020

The judge wrote to say, 'This year’s competition was especially difficult to judge, with many fine submissions from all over the world. Your book has been through several incarnations to its current, well organized and skillfully written state.' An earlier draft won the Athanatos novel writing contest and was long-listed in the Historical Novel Society's 2018 New Novel Award who noted it was 'told with charm and empathy... in a fresh and unexpected way.'

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