Paul Murray and Fern Brady win inaugural Nero book awards

Booker-shortlisted author Murray and standup turned memoirist Brady won in the best fiction and nonfiction categories, alongside debut and children’s fiction winners Michael Magee and Beth Lincoln

Gordon Burn prize announces ‘blazing’ shortlist

Seven-strong shortlist of boundary-pushing books ranges from an Arctic coming-of-age novel to nonfiction about the IRA’s Brighton bombing

Graphic novelist Posy Simmonds wins prestigious French comics award

Award marks first time a British artist and author has won Grand Prix at International Comics festival in Angoulême

Lynda La Plante and James Lee Burke share Diamond Dagger lifetime award

After hotly contested judging, the Crime Writers’ Association presents prestigious honour to two writers with ‘incredible bodies of work’

‘It was a real trauma’: the TS Eliot poetry prize winner on his turbulent upbringing

He grew up in Jamaica, thinking his grandmother was his mother, learning how to read from a blackboard on her veranda. What does Jason Allen-Paisant plan to do now? Fly to Ethiopia to meet his father for the first time

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of a collection that draws connections between Shakespeare’s hero and today’s immigrants

Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize

Other authors in contention for the award, previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize, include Naomi Klein and Observer art critic Laura Cumming

‘Freedom begins with a book’: incarcerated people to judge new US literary award

The Inside literary prize, chosen by a jury of 300, is hailed by finalists including Imani Perry and Tess Gunty

‘I cried, I danced to Springsteen’: in Australia, a Nobel laureate’s translator celebrates their win

A world away from Norway in Australia’s Blue Mountains, May-Brit Akerholt works to bring Jon Fosse’s work to English readers. ‘I reject the term translator,’ she says. ‘I create a new version’

Danger Sound Klaxon! wins oddest book title award

Matthew Jordan’s horn history beat Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze and I Fart in your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture

Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics

Septology author uses Nobel laureate speech to say writing ‘can save lives’ as he recalls his early poor reviews

Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with ‘immediate classic’

Impossible Creatures, about a realm where all the creatures of myth still live, was declared ‘as close to perfect as fiction gets’ by the retailer’s head of books

‘This is a wake-up call’: Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland

The writer was on the operating table for cancer, then exactly a year later he found out his nightmarish vision had made the shortlist. He reveals why the words for Prophet Song came out with such urgency, there was no time for paragraph breaks

‘Soul-shattering’ Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize

The Irish author’s novel set in an imagined Dublin descending into far-right tyranny wins £50,000 prize

Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awake

Prophet Song imagines an Ireland under fascist control, breaking through the it-couldn’t-happen-here complacency of western societies