Bernardine Evaristo offers her Kent cottage to writers for free retreats
Low-income writers and those without space to work will be prioritised under the RSL’s new Scriptorium awards, with 10 people a year allowed to stay for up to a month
Winner of Royal Society Trivedi science book prize assesses whether humans really could colonise Mars
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s book overturns Elon Musk’s claim that we could live on the red planet within years while stressing the good reasons to pursue space settlement
David Nicholls heads shortlist for Wodehouse comic fiction prize
Judges praise the ‘sheer variety of comedy in play’ in nominated books by Nicholls, Dolly Alderton, Caroline O’Donoghue and Kaliane Bradley
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Edenglassie wins $150,000 in book prizes in just 24 hours
First Nations writer’s work, which has now won seven awards, praised by judges as ‘fiercely original exploration of Australia’s past and its enduring consequences’
Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature
Nine of the Top 10 bestsellers in Korea’s largest bookstore chain are works by Han with her win being honoured by politicians, authors, readers and the entire country
Tell us: what does Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literature mean to you?
The Nobel commitee praised Kang’s ‘intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’
Forward poetry prize goes to Victoria Chang for collection inspired by painter Agnes Martin
Chang’s With My Back to the World takes the main £10,000 award while Marjorie Lotfi, Cindy Juyoung Ok and Leyla Josephine top other categories – making it an all-female winners list
Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter winner Arundhati Roy
Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize
Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award
Han Kang’s Nobel win is testament to importance of small press publishing
Literature in translation has long been reliant on indie presses to bring work such as the South Korean author’s to wider audiences
South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened
Author, known for her acclaimed work The Vegetarian, honoured for her ‘intense prose that confronts historical traumas’
South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature
Han, whose works include The Vegetarian, was praised for her ‘intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’
Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature
With odds of 10/1, the author of Love in the New Millennium, who was also the favourite last year, leads a pack that includes Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood
2024 Goldsmiths prize shortlist spotlights ‘the novel at its most novel’
Rachel Cusk, Neel Mukherjee and Jonathan Buckley and three debut authors in contention for award promoting innovation in fiction
Ross Raisin’s Ghost Kitchen wins 2024 BBC national short story award with dark gig economy tale – read it here
Raisin takes £15,000 prize with ‘a brilliantly rendered glimpse into life in the edge-lands’