Audiobooks narrated by Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan and David Tennant were among those recognised at the inaugural British Audio awards, the “Speakies”. Gatwa’s performance in the lead role of Gatsby in Harlem... Read more »
Nigeria-set drama My Father’s Shadow is the leading contender at this year’s British independent film awards (Bifas), after it scooped 12 nominations, including best British independent film, best director for Akinola Davies... Read more »
Bryan Washington, Rabih Alameddine and Karen Russell are among the finalists for this year’s National Book Awards. The three authors will compete in the fiction category alongside Megha Majumdar and Ethan Rutherford.... Read more »
The judges for the category this year are the poet and activist Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, proprietor of Green Feather Book Company; Tiya Miles, a history professor at Harvard whose book, “All... Read more »
More than a decade after attracting international acclaim for his debut The Boat, Nam Le has won book of the year at the NSW Literary awards for his follow-up, a book-length poem... Read more »
Book News: PEN America’s World Voices Festival, Literary Awards to return
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Book News: Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses among winners of Nero book awards
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Booker longlisted author Colin Barrett has won the Nero book award for debut fiction for his novel Wild Houses. Meanwhile Adam S Leslie has won in the fiction category for Lost in... Read more »
Novelists Donal Ryan, Colin Barrett, broadcaster Zeinab Badawi and children’s and young adult author Patrick Ness are among those shortlisted for this year’s Nero awards. A total of 16 books were shortlisted... Read more »