Botanical fairytale set in Kew Gardens wins the Waterstones children’s book prize

Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson – about a girl who finds a door to a magical realm while searching for her mother – wins the overall and young readers awards

Caleb Azumah Nelson and Mary Jean Chan shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

The six-strong list of titles include novels, short stories and poetry, with the winning writer to receive £20,000 when revealed in May

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prize

Irish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernardine Evaristo

Poet Liz Berry’s The Home Child wins Writers’ prize book of the year

Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, The Wren and Observer art critic Laura Cumming wins non-fiction with Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death

Carnegie medal for children’s books shortlist announced

A reinterpretation of the Minotaur myth, poetry exploring refugee experiences and a picture book looking at the human impact on nature all feature on the shortlist judged solely by librarians

Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

Works from the continent make up a quarter of this year’s nominees, which include novels from Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru

Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar for Poor Things

Stone takes her second prize in this category for her controversial role in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed period fantasy

‘We refute our Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars

Accepting the award for best international film for The Zone of Interest, Glazer took to the stage to make an impassioned call for his Auschwitz drama to make people reassess the contemporary conflict in the middle east

The 2024 Oscar shorts review – intense drama, enticing animation and essential documentary

While Wes Anderson’s nomination has caused mild controversy there is an enticing and eclectic mix of strong contenders worthy of the win

And the winner for best book that inspired a best picture nominee is …

From Oppenheimer to Poor Things, many of this year’s Oscar frontrunners started life as books, including comprehensive works of nonfiction and a madcap, faux Victorian memoir

Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success

Nolan’s complex epic won best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actor – but awards for The Zone of Interest, Poor Things and The Holdovers show they could still cause upsets on Oscar night

Georgi Gospodinov: ‘There was a culture of silence – it was safer not to say what you think’

The Bulgarian author and International Booker prize winner on his newfound fame, how communism influenced his style of writing, and winning praise from footballer Hristo Stoichkov

Guardian writer and Observer critic longlisted for inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction

Naomi Klein, Laura Cumming and historian Tiya Miles among 16 authors in contention for prize, which aims to boost women’s nonfiction award representation

Debut poet Grace Yee wins $125,000 for ‘feminist vision’ at Victorian premier’s literary awards

Yee won the Victorian prize for literature and the poetry category for her collection Chinese Fish, while Melissa Lukashenko won the fiction prize