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Stasi Child wins City Uni/PFD crime fiction prize

Stasi Child has won the inaugural City University Crime Fiction prize sponsored by leading London literary agents Peters Fraser & Dunlop. The prize is £1,500 plus representation. David had already agreed representation with Adam Gauntlett at PFD after Adam approached him at the shortlisting stage, so the novel is now ready for submission to publishers.

Stasi Child wins 3rd Prize in Yeovil Novel Award

Bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan has placed Stasi Child third in the novel category of the international Yeovil Literary Prize. You can read her comments in the Reviews section on this site. The Prize attracts more than a thousand entries each year, and this year there was a record entry for the novel section. Full results here -- click the novel tab on Yeovil Literary Prize page for the full report on the winners.

STASI CHILD is an unpublished novel written by DAVID YOU...

STASI CHILD is an unpublished novel written by DAVID YOUNG for his MA in Creative Writing at City University and will be submitted to literary agents shortly.

The novel opens with the discovery of the bullet-riddled body of a teenaged girl in the snow in a graveyard in East Berlin. The Stasi are on the scene first and come to an immediate conclusion about what’s happened: namely that the girl was shot by western guards trying to escape from 'decadent' West Berlin into the East.
People's Police Oberleutnant Karin Müller and her deputy, Unterleutnant Werner Tilsner, have to report to a Stasi lieutenant colonel at the scene. He instructs them to begin a missing person’s search but warns that they should do nothing to publicly undermine the official account of the girl's death.
Müller and Tilsner now have to fight for the truth in an almost Kafkaesque world. When the clues point to senior figures in the communist government, Müller must confront her own dark past to discover the identity of the killer or killers.
DAVID YOUNG was born near Hull and, after dropping out of a Bristol University science degree, studied Humanities at Bristol Polytechnic. Temporary jobs cleaning ferry toilets and driving a butcher’s van were followed by a career in journalism on provincial newspapers, a London news agency, and international radio and TV newsrooms. He now writes in his garden shed and in his spare time supports Hull City AFC.

Stasi Child shortlisted for City University prize

Stasi Child has been shortlisted for the internal crime fiction prize on the MA in Creative Writing at City University, sponsored by literary agency Peters Fraser & Dunlop. The winner gets a cheque for £1,500 and may get representation from the agency.