The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in... Read more »
Can Xue, László Krasznahorkai, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are among the authors most likely to win this year’s Nobel prize in literature, according to the bookies. Chinese avant garde... Read more »
Tom Paulin and Sarah Howe are among the poets shortlisted for this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot prize, the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious award for a single volume of poetry. The shortlist... Read more »
“Formidable female novelists, ghastly literary men, a faith-shaken poet, eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, international terrorists” are among the subjects covered by books on this year’s Baillie Gifford shortlist, according to its judging... Read more »
Sarah Hall, Charlie Porter and Yrsa Daley-Ward are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Goldsmiths prize. The £10,000 award recognises fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the... Read more »
The shortlist for the ninth year of the 4thWrite prize, the short story competition for unpublished writers of colour run by the publisher 4th Estate in association with the Guardian, has been... Read more »
Author Bernardine Evaristo is using the £100,000 she won through the Women’s prize outstanding contribution award to fund a new prize for “pioneering” British female writers over 60. The RSL Pioneer prize... Read more »
Personal stories are a strong focus in this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction longlist, with Yiyun Li’s memoir about the loss of her two teenage sons by suicide and Barbara Demick’s... Read more »
Ten authors nominated for this year’s Polari prizes, a set of UK awards celebrating LGBTQ+ literature, have withdrawn from the awards over the longlisting of John Boyne, who has described himself as... Read more »