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Carnegie 2025 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 12 March 2025
In the UK, the shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: The Carnegie Medal...

Carnegie 2025 longlists announced

the logo of the carnegies, a green square with a white torch and yellow flames Thursday, 13 February 2025
In the UK, the longlists for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. The 35 longlisted titles (19 for the Carnegie Medal for...

Osborne-Crowley longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

Friday, 13 December 2024
In the UK, British–Australian author Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$20,011) Gordon Burn Prize. Osborne-Crowley was longlisted for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of...

Chatterji wins 2024 Wolfson History Prize

Thursday, 5 December 2024
In the UK, historian Joya Chatterji has won the £50,000 (A$98,781) Wolfson History Prize 2024 for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Vintage). Previously longlisted for the Women’s Prize...

National Book Award winners announced

Monday, 25 November 2024
In the US, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, worth US$10,000 (A$15,367) in each category, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction James (Percival Everett,...

Michaels wins 2024 Giller Prize for ‘Held’

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Anne Michaels has won the C$100,000 (A$110,028) Giller Prize, Canada’s richest literary award, for her novel Held (Bloomsbury). Of the book, the judging panel wrote: ‘Held is a novel that...

Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’

Cover of Orbital Wednesday, 13 November 2024
In the UK, Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,635), for Orbital (Vintage). Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts...

Cusk wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘Parade’

Cover of Parade Thursday, 7 November 2024
In the UK, Rachel Cusk has won the £10,000 (A$19,605) Goldsmiths Prize for Parade (Faber), a novel that ‘offers an enigmatic and thought-provoking meditation on art, gender and the complexities...

DuVal wins 2024 Cundill History Prize

Friday, 1 November 2024
Kathleen DuVal has been announced as the 2024 winner of the US$75,000 (A$114,122) Cundill History Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House US). Jury chair Rana...

‘Language City’ wins 2024 British Academy Book Prize

Cover of Language City Wednesday, 23 October 2024
In the UK, US author writer Ross Perlin has won the £25,000 (A$48,543) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry winners announced 

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
At the opening of Durham Book Festival in the UK, four women were announced as winners of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry, with Victoria Chang’s poetry collection with my...

Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature

Han Kang Monday, 14 October 2024
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’. Han...

Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 3 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$19,268), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: All My Precious Madness (Mark Bowles, Galley Beggar Press) Tell...

FT Business Book of the Year shortlist announced

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost)...

Casati wins Glass Bell Award for ‘Clytemnestra’ 

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In the UK, Costanza Casati has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for Clytemnestra (Michael Joseph). Clytemnestra is Casati’s debut historical novel, described by the publisher as ‘an epic feminist...

Polari Prize 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 30 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2024 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced. Shortlisted titles include: Book prize (£2000, A$3867) Blue Hunger (Viola Di Grado, trans by...

Wolfson History Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 26 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,650), has been announced, reports BookBrunch. The shortlisted books are: Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Joya Chatterji,...

National Book Award longlists announced 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In the US, the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced. Longlisted fiction and nonfiction titles include: Fiction Ghostroots (’Pemi Aguda, Virago) Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar, Picador) The...

British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...

Hugo Awards 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The winners of this year’s Hugo Awards, presented annually by the World Science Fiction Convention, have been announced. Among the winners are: Best novel  Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh, Orbit)...

‘In Ascension’ wins 2024 Arthur C Clarke Award

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports the Guardian. MacInnes’s third novel, In Ascension follows marine biologist...

Taylor wins 2024 Ackerley Prize

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
In the UK, journalist and author Catherine Taylor has won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for The Stirrings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), reports the Bookseller. Taylor receives £4000 (A$7852). Also shortlisted for...

Lennon wins 2024 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize

Monday, 29 July 2024
In the UK, Ferdia Lennon has won the £5000 (A$9816) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree), reports the Bookseller. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winning...

CWA Dagger 2024 winners announced

Monday, 8 July 2024
In the UK, the winners of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Among the winners across 13 categories was Tell Me What I...

 

 

 

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