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£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (420+ words) literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts...Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, and Counterpoints Arts, a national organisation focusing...on arts, migration and cultural change, say the award will highlight…...
The best poetry books of 2025
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (865+ words) collection, The Book of Jonah (Picador), moves the minor prophet out of the Bible into a world of arts...collection, The Book of Jonah (Picador), moves the minor prophet out of the Bible into a world of arts...
Arundhati Roy and Lyse Doucet lead ‘exceptional’ Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (480+ words) Hotel in Kabul are joined by books on exile by Ece Temelkuran and Judith Mackrell and an ode to the arts...Rounding off the list is Fancourt’s Art Cure, about how the arts can improve our health, wellbeing and...
The best music books of 2025
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (360+ words) that Men of a Certain Age is a hard sell, a semi-autobiographical book in which the New Statesman’s arts...
Lily King: ‘What is life without love?’
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (419+ words) She studied English as an undergraduate, and a master of fine arts in creative writing at Syracuse University...
Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (340+ words) Smith – the author of novels including White Teeth and On Beauty – was speaking at the Arts theatre,...
British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (517+ words) Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller British novelist Gwendoline Riley is among eight writers set to receive $175,000 (£130,000) each in recognition of their life’s work. Australian playwright…...
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (718+ words) Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize,…...
A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1082+ words) It’s recently been accused of turning ‘woke’ – but the institution has been gay since the beginning, argues this deeply researched bookWhen it emerged that the National Trust had put vegan scones on the menu, it was seized on by some…...
A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1506+ words) My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviourBack in September, in…...