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 »
The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at... Read more »
Capitalism, artificial intelligence, Renaissance history and motherhood are among the topics explored in the books on the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction longlist. Sixteen women – including Guardian US columnist Naomi Klein,... Read more »
Booker-shortlisted author Jonathan Escoffery and Guardian Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll and are among those shortlisted for this year’s Gordon Burn prize, which aims to champion the year’s “boldest and most innovative” books.... Read more »
Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won this year’s TS Eliot prize for Self-Portrait As Othello, his collection exploring Black masculinity and immigrant identity. Allen-Paisant was announced as the winner of the £25,000... Read more »
Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize. Smith’s first historical novel... Read more »