Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for children’s books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a Black British writer. Source link Read more »
Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for childrenâs books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a Black British writer. The current childrenâs laureate won the prize,... Read more »
Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann have won the 2024 International Booker prize for Erpenbeck’s “personal and political” novel Kairos, translated by Hofmann from German. Erpenbeck is the first German writer to win,... Read more »
British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this yearâs Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for his second novel Small Worlds, which judges described as âsymphonicâ and âviscerally movingâ. Azumah Nelson, 30, was... Read more »
The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at... Read more »
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 »
Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won this year’s TS Eliot prize for Self-Portrait As Othello, his collection exploring Black masculinity and immigrant identity. Allen-Paisant was announced as the winner of the £25,000... Read more »
“Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize Nov 26 2023 Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song, set in an imagined... Read more »