Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is a literary prize awarded to a British author under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.At that time entries were confined to short stories and published in the newspaper itself.[3] "The Ups and The Downs" was Charles Nicholl's disturbing and humorous account of a bad LSD trip in London.In 1999, Paul Farley's The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You "was so well received", according to the Encyclopedia of British Writers, that "it was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award".[4] It was re-invigorated with the support of literary agents Peters Fraser + Dunlop in 2015 under the new name Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award.