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 »
The Irish novelist Anne Enright is one of eight writers set to receive $175,000 (£135,000) each in recognition of their life’s work. American writer Sigrid Nunez was also selected as part of... Read more »
A heartwarming children’s story describing the lives of a First Nations family living on a Lutheran mission in the 50s has won Australia’s richest literary prize. Nukgal Wurra author-artist Wanda Gibson collected... Read more »
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