“It’s been an extraordinary seven months,” said Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, in a statement accompanying this year’s longlist. “The five Booker judges have each read 163 books, discussed and debated them, and sometimes re-read them, to whittle them down to a longlist of just 13.”
UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner
David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.
The £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction’s 2025 Shortlist
Mature authors on ‘individuals trying to live with other people’: A rather grownup shortlist is announced by the Booker Prize.
London’s Booker Prize for Fiction: The 2025 Longlist
An especially international Booker Prize for Fiction longlist features many writers, as Gaby Wood points out, with sustained careers.
Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ Wins the £50,000 Booker Prize
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 2024 Booker Prize Winner, sold more copies in the UK than any other title on the shortlist.
The UK’s £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction Names Its 2024 Shortlist
In its 55th year, the United Kingdom’s Booker Prize for Fiction names its first shortlist to include a Dutch author’s work.
The International Dayton Peace Prize: 2024 Shortlists
The international award created in 2006 to commemorate the 1995 Dayton Accords shortlists six fiction and six nonfiction titles.
Kenya: Nairobi’s Macondo Festival Plans Its Fourth Edition
A public-facing event, the Macondo Literary Festival will stage its fourth iteration in Nairobi in September.
The UK’s Booker Prize For Fiction: 2024 Longlist
The 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction longlist includes two titles from independent publishers, as well as a Dutch and a Native American writer.
UK: The Society of Authors’ 2024 Award Winners
Winners in the 2024 round of competitions administered by London’s Society of Authors meet at Southwark Cathedral for a ceremony.