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COVENTRY, UNITED KINGDOM – June 6, 2012: Land Rover todayannounced the winner of its short story competition incollaboration with British GQ and Soho House. Winner Kirstin Zhang began writing five years ago, and was inspiredto pen her winning entry, ‘The Emperor's NewClothes', after seeing some photographs of the Emperor in abook called Embracing Defeat by John Dower. News of the winner was shared during a dinner hosted by Dylan Jonesand Nick Jones and held at Cabalva House, the home of Revel Guest,chair of the Hay Festival. In addition to authors appearing at theFestival during the opening weekend, the dinner was attended by theCity Stories judges; Land Rover's Design Director GerryMcGovern, Times critic and chief of the Soho House Literary Salon,Damian Barr; literary agents Ed Victor and Diane Banks; GQ DeputyEditor Bill Prince; GQ Literary Editor Olivia Cole; and Housemagazine Editor Justin Quirk. ‘I wrote it very quickly,' Kirstin Zhang remarked ofher winning entry, which deals with the immediate aftermath ofWorld War II in Japan, and the decision to humanize the Emperor bygiving him a beaten up old hat to wear. ‘The extraordinarything is that I only became aware of the competition the day beforethe deadline and debated whether I had time to produce a story ofhigh enough quality. It was, however, too good a chance to passup.' Kirstin, currently a press officer at an independent school andinvolved in creative community projects around writing andstorytelling, was originally born in the north of England toScottish parents, but her father's work with the RAF saw themmove to Cyprus, then Papua New Guinea before moving to Scotland.Since then, she has lived in America and Japan, studied at SOAS inLondon and Glasgow before moving to her current hometown. The aim of the City Stories competition was to discover the bestunsigned, unpublished and unrepresented writers globally. The briefwas simple – a fictional story, based around the theme ofCities, set anywhere and at any time as long as they talked aboutthe urban experience, and were no more than 1000 words long. Thecompetition is the latest in a line of literary events, which LandRover, GQ and Soho House have collaborated on. Literary agent Diane Banks who will now go on and represent Kirstinsays. "Kirstin is a very talented writer and we're already planningher first novel, Suddenly, the Sea, which will be set in post-warJapan. Revolving around the discovery of a girl's body and setagainst a beautiful landscape, Suddenly, the Sea will evoke a worldin flux where identities must be forged, reclaimed and sometimeslost. It's rare to find such sophisticated new talent and I'mexcited about working with Kirstin to build her career as anovelist." ‘The Emperor's New Clothes' will appear in theAugust issue of GQ, available on newsstand from the 5th July. Other guests at the Land Rover, GQ and Soho House dinner at HayFestival included Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Mariella Frostrup,Maryam d'Abo and Monty Don. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Air Outlet Casing , China Turbocharger Diffuser for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Turbocharger Diffuser.
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