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Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (613+ words) prize for My Soul, A Shining Tree. The Nero book awards, run by Caffè Nero, were launched in 2023 after Costa Coffee abruptly ended its book awards in June 2022. The prizes aim to point readers “of...
The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (242+ words) As the number of children reading for pleasure hits a record low, the new award highlights its importance for wellbeing, and will give away thousands of books Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award Obviously for me – as chair of the judges…...
NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Best of Caine award
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (378+ words) The Zimbabwean writer – who has been twice nominated for the Booker – won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011, with her story Hitting Budapest Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won the Best of Caine award, an honorary prize celebrating a…...
‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (740+ words) Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’ “Formidable female novelists, ghastly literary men, a faith-shaken poet, eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, international terrorists” are among the subjects covered by books…...
Alan Hollinghurst wins David Cohen lifetime award for ‘pioneering’ novels
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (616+ words) Author says he is ‘overcome with emotion’ after winning £40,000 honour for books including The Line of Beauty and The Swimming-Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst has been awarded the 2025 David Cohen prize for literature, one of the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious…...
CD Rose awarded the 2025 Goldsmiths prize
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (400+ words) The author has won the experimental literary fiction prize for his ‘dizzying, encyclopaedic’ fifth book, We Live Here Now CD Rose has won the 2025 Goldsmiths prize for his novel We Live Here Now, praised by judges as “hilarious and deeply…...
As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them | Chris Power
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (169+ words) Ben Markovits, David Szalay, Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura’s books will all take you on enthralling journeys ‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist The Booker prize is both a serious and…...
When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (221+ words) Helen DeWitt turning down the Windham-Campbell literary award caused controversy. But her bold act highlights that such prizes aren’t always as meritocratic as they might seem DeWitt is a critically acclaimed author, and her debut novel, The Last Samurai – published…...
‘Provocative’ story about British Museum statue wins 4thWrite prize
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (450+ words) Piyumi Kapugeekiyana’s tale explores repatriation and cultural ownership through a replica of the goddess Tārā Read the winning story: The Original Is Not Here A story exploring cultural ownership through the eyes of a museum curator has won this year’s…...
4thWrite prize shortlist offers up ‘daring, imaginative’ new voices
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (572+ words) The six contenders for the short story prize for unpublished writers of colour took judges on a ‘dizzying, whirlwind tour across borders, through a gamut of emotions high and low’ The shortlist for the ninth year of the 4thWrite prize, the…...