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Awards ceremonies indicate the one-sentence novel is having a moment.
Norwegian Jon Fosse and Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel winners in 2023 and 2025, treat the full stop as a needless barrier in their novels; Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport is a single-sentence Goldsmiths winner and Booker shortlistee.
- New Australian fiction novel uses no full stops, scene breaks or chapters.
- One-sentence novel trend noted via recent awards.
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- Further recognition of one-sentence novels possible at awards.
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