CLASSIC STORIES, STORY 3:

SILVINA OCAMPO’S ‘THE HOUSE MADE OF SUGAR’

 

While this year’s submissions window is open for the GBP Short Story Prize 2016/17, we'll be posting some classic short stories for our friends and entrants to access freely.

 

This week Chris Power – short story writer, journalist, and author of The Guardian’s Brief Survey Of The Short Story, as well as one of this year’s judges for the GBP Prize - has suggested Silvina Ocampo’s ‘The House Made of Sugar’.

 

A friend of Jorge Luis Borges, Ocampo’s stories frequently combine the ordinary and the strange, uncovering – along the way – both the horror and the marvels in everyday life. Italo Calvino said of her: “I don’t know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.”

 

You can read ‘The House Made of Sugar’ here.

 

And an article on Ocampo and her work, by Chris, can be accessed here.

 

Finally, if you would liketo enter or find out more about the GBP Short Story Prize, head here.