A “stunning” debut novel described as “unambiguously and distinctively Queensland” has won the $30,000 top prize at the Queensland literary awards (QLAs). The Pearl of Tagai Town by Lenora Thaker. Photograph: Text... Read more »
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel prize in literature Ella Creamer And we have a winner! It’s the Canadian poet Anne Carson. Share Updated at 07.04 EDT Key events Ella Creamer That’s... Read more »
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced. The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in... Read more »
Edinburgh-based writer Cherise Saywell has won this year’s BBC national short story award for a “tender” and “taut” story about a young boy caught in the midst of domestic violence. Saywell was... Read more »
The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, an illustrated guide to Britain’s threatened bird species, has been named as the Wainwright prize book of the year. Meanwhile, the prize’s... Read more »
A “landmark” novel written collaboratively by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal storytellers, fusing pre-colonial Yolngu oral history with western novelistic storytelling, has won the $80,000 Prime Minister’s Literary award for fiction. A Piece of... Read more »
A novel about rewilding and climate activism in Britain has been named this year’s winner of the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction. When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift... Read more »
When Omar Musa found out he had won Australia’s most prestigious prize for fiction, the $60,000 Miles Franklin literary award, he was already on a high. The 42-year-old was on his honeymoon,... Read more »
Author and poet Rebecca Perry has won the 2026 Waterstones debut fiction prize for May We Feed the King, praised as a “delicious and dream-like tale”. Chosen from a shortlist of six... Read more »