A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. The Gathering by Partridge Boswell was picked from more than 21,000 entries by poets... Read more »
This year’s Waterstones children’s book prize winner features a green blob tucking its child – a smaller green blob – into bed. Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob by Huw Aaron is narrated by... Read more »
Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first Oscar, for best adapted screenplay for One Battle After Another. Also directed by Anderson, One Battle After Another is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s... Read more »
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 »
Evelyn Araluen has won both the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature and the $25,000 Indigenous writing category at this year’s Victorian premier’s literary awards, for her second poetry collection The Rot. Selected... Read more »
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 »
The Artist by Lucy Steeds has been named this year’s Waterstones book of the year. The novel, which is set in 1920s Provence and blends mystery with a love story, also took... Read more »
Rabih Alameddine has won the National book award for fiction for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), a darkly comic saga spanning six decades in the life... Read more »
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The... Read more »