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Six outstanding essays from the Winners of the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize.
After awarding the five runners-up with £1,000 each, the judges were delighted to announce David Bradley as this year’s winner for his essay A Eulogy for Nigger and to present him with the £20,000 first prize.
Adam Mars-Jones describes the winning essay in the foreword to the collection, newly published in the bespoke Notting Hill Editions format as delivering ‘a thoroughly disconcerting reading experience, richly mischievous, subtle in its anger.’
In 2007, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a solemn funeral for the N-word. Bradley responds to the burial with an impassioned defence of Nigger as a word, as a history and as a concept.
‘Nigger knew the price black Americans paid to keep on being Americans, to keep on loving that great white witch….That’s why I loved Nigger. And while I do not insist you love him too, I do insist you recognize my right to speak his name.’
All of the finalists’ essays for the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Prize were fiercely bold and topical – they are:
Hope at the Edge – Garry Cooper
Guts – Johanna Möhring
The Great War and Modern Memory Revisited – Kate McLoughlin
The Incurious Rabbit – Josh Cohen
The Rainmaker’s Flood – Jennifer Kabat.
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