Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction | Hilary Mantel

Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction | Hilary Mantel

Anna Dempsey has been named the winner of the inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction, taking home £7,500 for her unpublished novel This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else. The newly... Read more »
Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize | Books

Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize | Books

Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. Harriet Armstrong, Colwill Brown, Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Suzannah V Evans also made the shortlist... Read more »
Climate fiction prize announces finalists including Madeleine Thien and Robbie Arnott | Books

Climate fiction prize announces finalists including Madeleine Thien and Robbie Arnott | Books

Madeleine Thien and Robbie Arnott are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s £10,000 Climate fiction prize. Now in its second year, the prize celebrates novels that engage with the climate crisis... Read more »
Claire Lynch wins Nero Gold prize for debut about 1980s homophobia | Books

Claire Lynch wins Nero Gold prize for debut about 1980s homophobia | Books

A debut novel exploring the long-term effects of prejudice and secrecy on a lesbian couple in the 1980s has won the Nero Gold prize. Claire Lynch was presented with the £30,000 award... Read more »
Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura among authors longlisted for Women’s prize for fiction | Women’s prize for fiction

Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura among authors longlisted for Women’s prize for fiction | Women’s prize for fiction

Katie Kitamura, Susan Choi, Kit de Waal and Lily King are among the authors longlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction. Awarded annually and now in its 31st year, the prize... Read more »
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Olga Ravn, Daniel Kehlmann, Ia Genberg, Mathias Énard and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among those longlisted for the International Booker prize, which recognises the best translated fiction and turns 10 this year.... Read more »
Claire Lynch wins Nero Gold prize for debut about 1980s homophobia | Books

Arundhati Roy and Sarah Perry longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction | Books

Arundhati Roy, Sarah Perry and Lea Ypi are among the writers longlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction. Sixteen authors are in contention to win the £30,000 award, launched in 2024... Read more »
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie | Poetry

Early on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister... Read more »
Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize | TS Eliot prize for poetry

Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize | TS Eliot prize for poetry

The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for a collection of work, Wellwater, which explores the destruction of the natural world. Solie was announced as the... Read more »
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