From the Baillie Gifford to the Giller: can literary prizes survive protests against sponsors? | Books

From the Baillie Gifford to the Giller: can literary prizes survive protests against sponsors? | Books

On a Monday evening in mid-November, dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Toronto’s Park Hyatt Hotel, where the Giller prize gala was taking place. The following night, in London, the Baillie Gifford nonfiction... Read more »
VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction | Women’s prizes

VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction | Women’s prizes

Doppelganger by Guardian US columnist Naomi Klein has become the inaugural winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction, while Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan has been named winner of the fiction prize.... Read more »
Pulitzer 2024 winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times | Awards and prizes

Pulitzer 2024 winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times | Awards and prizes

This year’s Pulitzer winners include the New York Times and ProPublica as well as authors including Jayne Anne Phillips and Jonathan Eig. The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2023 in... Read more »
From the Baillie Gifford to the Giller: can literary prizes survive protests against sponsors? | Books

Eight writers win ‘freedom and time to write’ with $175,000 Windham-Campbell prizes | Books

Deirdre Madden, Kathryn Scanlan and Hanif Abdurraqib are among the eight recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes, worth $175,000 (£140,000) each. Madden, who is from Northern Ireland, was recognised for her eight... Read more »
Debut poet Grace Yee wins 5,000 for ‘feminist vision’ at Victorian premier’s literary awards | Awards and prizes

Debut poet Grace Yee wins $125,000 for ‘feminist vision’ at Victorian premier’s literary awards | Awards and prizes

A first-time poet has won both the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature and the $25,000 poetry category at this year’s Victorian premier’s literary awards, becoming the first poet to win the overall... Read more »
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