Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque
Scholars and politicians to attend unveiling of memorial at family home of only Welsh winner of literary prize
‘Extraordinary’ Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children’s writing
‘Extraordinary’ novel The Boy Lost in the Maze takes prestigious honour while sister prize for illustration goes to Aaron Becker’s wordless The Tree and the River
Six ‘bold and playful’ novels shortlisted for Waterstones debut fiction prize
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly are among those in contention for award voted on by the company’s booksellers
VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction
Judges praised Klein’s Doppelganger for its ‘courageous’ study of truth in politics and called Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night a ‘masterpiece’ of historical fiction
Winner: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize 2024: Oscar Jelley reviews Isabel Waidner
The winning entry for this year’s criticism prize dissects the German-British writer’s latest novel, a work that combines surrealist fantasy and political moralising
John Burnside obituary
Poet, winner of the TS Eliot and Forward prizes and the Whitbread poetry award, memoirist, novelist and academic
Yepoka Yeebo takes home 2024 Jhalak prize for writers of colour
Author of Anansi’s Gold, a nonfiction account of a notorious Ghanian conman ‘told with biting wit’, wins £1,000 award
€100,000 Dublin literary award won by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu
Cărtărescu’s novel Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter, was described by judges as ‘wildly inventive with passages of great beauty’
‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos
A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize
Erpenbeck is the first German writer and Michael Hofmann the first male translator to win the £50,000 prize for novel which tells the story of a relationship set against the collapse of East Germany
Poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins book of the year at the NSW premier’s literary awards
Her first novel in eight years, She is the Earth, also claims the Indigenous writers category, netting writer a combined $40,000
Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds
Judges describe second novel set between south-east London and Ghana as ‘symphonic’ and ‘viscerally moving’
Ian Penman’s ‘glittering’ book about Fassbinder wins Ondaatje prize
The veteran music journalist’s personal study of the German film-maker wins £10,000 honour for the year’s best literary evocation of place
‘The only healing will be through justice’: Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico
Through writing about her sister Liliana’s murder 30 years ago, the author found a community of those whose female friends and family members had also been killed. Yet the authorities still fail to act
Australian literature has long been ‘hijacked by activists’. This has made it richer. Let’s not go backwards
Seeking to dismiss a judge for being passionate about a cause pertaining to the safety and liberation of her people reeks of a desperation to silence a critical voice