Two experimental novels have jointly won the Queen Mary small press fiction prize, formerly known as the Republic of Consciousness prize. Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca Gransden, published... Read more »
Magic Beach by Alison Lester has won Guardian Australia’s poll to find Australia’s best children’s picture book of all time. More than 100,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 27 January.... Read more »
Novelist Elif Shafak has been named the new president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), taking over from Bernardine Evaristo as she reaches the end of her four-year term. British-Turkish writer... Read more »
British-Ukrainian writer Marina Lewycka has posthumously been named the winner of the Vintage Bollinger prize, a winner-of-winners award marking the 25th anniversary of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. The... Read more »
Richard Ayoade, Guy Jenkin, Sandi Toksvig and Nussaibah Younis are among eight authors in the running to have a pig named after their novel in this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for... Read more »
At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new US poet laureate: the much-honored author and translator Arthur Sze. The... Read more »
Two books about male friendship and masculinity have been announced as winners in the latest Carnegie awards, which highlight the best new books for children and young people. This year saw 27-year-old... Read more »
Book News: Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024
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“AI” named most notable word of 2023 by Collins dictionary Nov 01 2023 The technology that is set to dominate the future – for good or ill – is now the word... Read more »