The annual short story award run by the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate is open for entries from unpublished writers of colour based in the UK. The 4thWrite prize, now in its... Read more »
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Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for âriotousâ novel Glorious Exploits | Books
Ferdia Lennon has won this yearâs Waterstones debut fiction prize for his âriotous, exuberant treat of a novelâ, Glorious Exploits. The novel, which took about seven years to write, is set in... Read more »
Northern writers still face a struggle to make it in the London-centric literary world, the organisers of a regional literary prize have said. Claire Malcolm, founder and chief executive of New Writing... Read more »
Six âbold and playfulâ novels, including The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, have been shortlisted for the Waterstones debut fiction prize. Now in... Read more »
Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann have won the 2024 International Booker prize for Erpenbeck’s “personal and political” novel Kairos, translated by Hofmann from German. Erpenbeck is the first German writer to win,... Read more »
British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this yearâs Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for his second novel Small Worlds, which judges described as âsymphonicâ and âviscerally movingâ. Azumah Nelson, 30, was... Read more »
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday by the Pulitzer Prize Board. To see and read more about the winners, please visit our awards page. Source link Read more »
Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online. Source link Read more »