The story, distilled from the novel Cove and published in The New Yorker , lands the £15,000 prize. More information here . Meanwhile, one of Rafael Koller's incredible illustrations from the Swiss German translation in Schwiezer Monat. #Shortstory #BBCNationalShortStoryAward #Granta #TheNewYorker #Award

A man kayaks out to sea to scatter his father's ashes and is hit by lightning in this short story drawn from the novel Cove , published in The New Yorker in December 2016. Selected from over 600 entries, this year’s shortlisted stories are: "Murmur" by Will Eaves "The Waken" by Jenni Fagan "The Edge of the Shoal" by Cynan Jones "The Collector" by Benjamin Markovits "If a book is locked there’s probably a good reason for that, don’t you think?" by Helen Oyeyemi The winner