Salman Rushdie and Miranda July among National Book award finalists
This year’s contenders for the main prizes also include Percival Everett, Hisham Matar and Kaveh Akbar
TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’
The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf
Polari prize shortlists include Munroe Bergdorf, Jon Ransom and Lex Croucher
Prize founder Paul Burston says shortlisted books ‘remind us of the power of queer storytelling at a time when some would see our books and stories banned’
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall
The Guardian view on the Booker prize shortlist: a cause for celebration
Editorial: The most female finalists in the award’s history. What took it so long?
Nadia Davids wins Caine short story prize for ‘triumph of language’ Bridling
The South African author’s work was described as ‘an impressive achievement’ by chair of judges Chika Unigwe
Charlotte Wood on the Booker prize: ‘The global attention is like nothing I’ve seen’
The author is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the $98,000 prize since Richard Flanagan won in 2014
Each of the six Booker novels does something unique
As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain
Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist
The six finalists include five books by women – the highest number of female writers shortlisted in the prize’s 55-year history
Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2024: Andre Dao wins $80,000 for debut novel Anam
Judges praise book as ‘profoundly relevant’, with Daniel Browning, Amy Crutchfield and Will Kostakis also winning in their categories
2024 Wainwright prizes are ‘heartwarming’ tribute to a new generation of nature writers
Top nature writing honour goes to Late Light by Michael Malay, which explores modern Britain through the ‘unloved’ lives of eels, moths, crickets and mussels
Literary prize drops name of its sponsor from title after protests over Israel arms link
Canada’s Giller prize – formerly known as the Scotiabank Giller prize – will keep the bank as its main sponsor
Melissa Lucashenko wins $30,000 prize for novel that ‘elevates our understanding of Queensland’s soul’
Edenglassie, about the colonisation of the place now called Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the state’s 2024 literary awards
Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize
Books by Richard Flanagan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rachel Cockerell and Jonathan Blitzer also in running for £50,000 nonfiction award
Jeremy Strong obituary
Author who won the Children’s Book award in 1997 and whose bestselling series made adults laugh too