Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award
The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changes
No need for hard stares as Paddington: The Musical triumphs at Olivier awards
West End spectacular about beloved bear wins seven prizes, while Rachel Zegler, Rosamund Pike and Paapa Essiedu all recognised
Helen DeWitt turns down $175k Windham-Campbell prize over promotional requirements
The novelist says she couldn’t accept the award after being told it would entail ‘extensive promotion’
British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins $175k Windham-Campbell prize
Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller
‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced
The six finalists include Marie NDiaye and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ alongside Daniel Kehlmann’s second nomination for the £50,000 prize
Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob wins Waterstones children’s book prize
Huw Aaron’s tale of a green blob reading to its child takes overall prize, while Janeen Hayat wins in the young readers category and SF Williamson in the older readers
‘Effortlessly hip’: two novels named joint winners of Queen Mary small press fiction prize
Rebecca Gransden’s Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group and Nell Osborne’s Ghost Driver ‘crossed the line together’ to take award previously known as the Republic of Consciousness prize
Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition
Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize
First Queen’s reading medal goes to Black British book festival founder Selina Brown
The founder of Europe’s largest celebration of Black literature and champion of inclusive reading becomes Queen Camilla’s inaugural National Reading Hero
Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction
Anna Dempsey’s This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers
Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize
Six writers are now finalists for the prestigious annual prize, which awards £20,000 to a writer aged 39 or under
Climate fiction prize announces finalists including Madeleine Thien and Robbie Arnott
The authors of The Book of Records and Dusk join Keshava Guha, Susanna Kwan, Maria Reva and Helen Phillips on the shortlist for the £10,000 prize
Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish winner of best actress Oscar for Hamnet
Buckley, who plays Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, was favourite to win after victories in all preceding ceremonies
Paul Thomas Anderson wins first ever Oscar as One Battle After Another takes best adapted screenplay
Director won the Oscar for his critically acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era