British novelist Ross Raisin has won the 2024 BBC national short story award for Ghost Kitchen, a story narrated by a bicycle courier and inspired by the gig economy. Raisin was announced... Read more »
South African writer Nadia Davids has won this yearâs Caine prize for African writing for her short story Bridling, described as a âtriumph of languageâ by the chair of judges. The prize,... Read more »
Melissa Lucashenkoâs historical novel Edenglassie, about the colonisation of Magandjin/Meanjin/Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the Queensland literary awards, with the judges praising it as a work that âelevates our understanding... Read more »
Martin MacInnes wins Arthur C Clarke award for âintense tripâ of a novel | Arthur C Clarke award
Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has taken home this yearâs Arthur C Clarke award for what judges described as an âintense tripâ of a novel, moving from the depths of the ocean to... Read more »
Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for âriotousâ novel Glorious Exploits | Books
Ferdia Lennon has won this yearâs Waterstones debut fiction prize for his âriotous, exuberant treat of a novelâ, Glorious Exploits. The novel, which took about seven years to write, is set in... Read more »
A “boundary-pushing take on the police procedural” which features a human detective working with an AI sleuth in order to solve a missing persons case has won the coveted Theakston Old Peculier... Read more »
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 »