“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: Isabella Hammad Wins the Royal Society’s 2024 Encore Award
The winner of the RSL’s Encore award, Isabella Hammad, says that it’s in writing a second novel that ‘a writer really becomes a writer.’
The UK’s Royal Society of Literature Names an ‘Encore’ Shortlist
The ‘Encore’ contest for second novels has been administered by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature since 2016.
John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather’ Wins the Baillie Gifford Prize
John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather’ about fossil fuels, climate science, and disaster wins the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction in London.
Exclusive: Baillie Gifford Prize Reveals Its Sales Impact
Working with Nielsen, the Baillie Gifford Prize’s research on six winners shows an average 857-percent gain in unit sales after a win.
In the UK, the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize’s Shortlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist includes three debut authors and a nod to the independent house Swift Press.
UK: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize Names Its Longlist
The 26th award from the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction will come from the 13-title longlist announced today in London.
Awards: Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Names Its Shortlist
A Welsh award regime based at Swansea University, the Dylan Thomas Prize has a six-title shortlist.
Awards: Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Announces Its 2022 Longlist
The 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize longlist honors a dozen titles by writers 39 or younger, most from independent publishers this year.
Russian Court Closes Memorial International, 2021 Michalski Prize Winner
In what France’s foreign minister terms ‘a terrible loss,’ Moscow’s high court closes the organization and publisher Memorial International.