Work from Australia, Nigeria, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Somalia is on the Dylan Thomas Prize 2023 shortlist. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Hugely Different in Style, Subject, and Genre’ arlier this month, the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year reported its winner, the author of Oxblood (Bloomsbury Publishing). As we’ve written in the …
The UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize, Looking for New Sponsor, Names Its 2023 Winners
The American critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson wins the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize, which is looking for new sponsorship.
The US National Book Awards Name Jurors, Open Submissions
The 74th edition of the National Book Awards program based in New York City has opened submissions and named its 25 jurors.
Tom Benn Wins England’s Young Writer of the Year Award
The £10,000 Young Writer of the Year award from the UK’s Sunday Times goes to Tom Benn for his fourth novel, ‘Oxblood.’
PEN America Literary Award Winners: India’s Vinod Kumar Shukla Honored
The annual PEN America Literary Awards this year have included three career-achievement awards and 11 book awards.
England’s Young Writer of the Year Award Names Its Shortlist
This four-title shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award is to yield a winner by mid-March.
England’s Rathbones Folio Prize Announces 2023 Shortlists
Drawn from an international field of writers working in English, the Rathbones Folio Prize shortlists add up to 15 titles.
Scotland’s Robert Burns Night: James Cosmo Reads ‘To a Mouse’
In honor of Robert Burns Night 2023, actor James Cosmo is working with Visit Scotland to promote Scottish literature.
Douglas Stuart’s ‘Young Mungo’ Is on Scotland’s Highland Book Prize Longlist
The Booker Prize winner for ‘Shuggie Bain,’ Douglas Stuart, is on the new Highland Book Prize longlist of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The US National Book Awards: Celebrating the Winners
The 2022 National Book Awards fundraising gala was a boisterous and profound coming-back-together after two years of digital editions.