‘I am nothing if not persistent’: Lesley Imgart, winner of our graphic short story prize 2024

It was fifth time lucky for Imgart in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists, with her spellbinding tale about the life of a young witch

Shortlisted 4thWrite prize stories reveal ‘desire to connect’

The six entries in the running for the short story prize for unpublished writers of colour, share a common interest in ‘exploring interiority and the nature of human existence’

Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize

‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the age of extinction and despair

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital tops UK bestseller list

The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book to top the charts in the week of its win

The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: a whole new perspective

Editorial: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a love letter to our wounded planet, is the perfect choice for the political moment

Alexis Wright wins $60,000 Melbourne literature prize

The Waanyi writer, who won the Miles Franklin award and Stella prize this year for her novel Praiseworthy, has been recognised for her body of work and contribution to Australian culture

‘I’m so not an astronaut!’ Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning space novel – and the anxiety that drove it

She won the top prize with a time-distorted novel set on the International Space Station. Yet, the writer reveals, Orbital is actually ‘a celebration of Earth’s beauty with a pang of loss’ – fuelled by her anxiety-induced insomnia

Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize

The British author’s novel about astronauts on the International Space Station was chosen unanimously as the winner, says judging chair Edmund de Waal

‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner

After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as possible from our planet

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is… you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

Rachel Cusk wins Goldsmiths prize for novel ‘that turns the world inside out’

Parade, which focuses on three artists, all named G, takes this year’s honour for mould-breaking fiction

Kneecap leads nominations for British independent film awards

Belfast-set rap comedy leads the charge with 14 nominations, with Love Lies Bleeding and The Outrun close behind

Two novels on impact of post-colonial conflict win key French literary awards

President congratulates Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye for books responding to violence in Algeria and Rwanda