Lucy Steeds has won the 2025 Waterstones debut fiction prize for her novel The Artist, which has been praised for its “atmospheric, sensory prose.” Set in an artist’s household in 1920s Provence,... Read more »
Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women. The prize is awarded to a writer who, in the words of... Read more »
A novel told from the perspective of a robot girlfriend has been named winner of the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is “a tightly focused... Read more »
Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge writes roadmap for authors’ revenge Jun 26 2025 U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a case brought by 13 authors,... Read more »
A joke about punctuation has been chosen as the funniest in a competition run by the Beano comic. Year 5 pupils at Riverley primary school in Leyton, east London, won the accolade... Read more »
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won this year’s International Booker prize for translated fiction, becoming the first short story collection to take the award. The stories were... Read more »
More than a decade after attracting international acclaim for his debut The Boat, Nam Le has won book of the year at the NSW Literary awards for his follow-up, a book-length poem... Read more »
A novel about a Palestinian woman who participates in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. Palestinian journalist Yasmin Zaher took home the £20,000... Read more »
Clear by Carys Davies has won this year’s Ondaatje prize for writing that “best evokes the spirit of a place”. The Welsh novelist’s third novel is set on a Scottish island during... Read more »