The American author Carmen Maria Machado has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for her memoir "In the Dream House", which examines the domestic abuse she was subjected to by her ex-girlfriend.
It is at once an inventive and radical work, a true testimony to her narrative gift. Machado, 34, has said that she found it hard to make sense of her own experience, because she had not encountered narratives of queer domestic abuse before.
In the Dream House looks at the relationship through different literary genres and tropes, from classic romance to ghost story, unreliable narrator to pathetic fallacy.
The prize is open to all genres – fiction, non-fiction, and poetry- from writers from around the world. It is the only prize in which all the books considered for the prize are selected and judged by an academy of peers, though there are three main judges.
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