Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom win the Polari prizes for LGBTQ+ books
Armfield’s novel Our Wives Under the Sea won the overall prize, while Ransom’s The Whale Tattoo took the first book award
Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize
Paul Harding, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray have been given the best odds of winning the prestigious £50,000 literary prize this weekend
‘They give us better options for preserving nature’: Ed Yong on revealing the hidden lives of animals
The Pulitzer-winning author, who has just won the Royal Society science book prize for An Immense World, reveals how radical empathy uncovers the forces that have driven evolution and teaches us new ways to engage
Canadian writers ask Giller prize to drop charges against pro-Palestinian protesters
More than 1,800 writers and publishers have signed an open letter in support of the pro-Palestinian protest at the prestigious literary award last week
Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards
The prizes, which have picked up from the abruptly cancelled Costa awards, cover fiction, debut fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction
Bob Mortimer wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for his ‘mischievous’ debut novel
A pig will be named in honour of The Satsuma Complex, this year’s winner of the award for comic fiction
Booker prize 2023: will the judges talk themselves out of the right choice?
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, in a year full of family sagas, is surely the standout volume, but the panel may just opt for Sarah Bernstein’s ‘spectrally vague brainteaser’
Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2023: Jessica Au wins for lauded novella Cold Enough for Snow
Melbourne author wins $80,000 fiction prize, while other winners include journalist Sam Vincent in the nonfiction category for memoir My Father and Other Animals
John Burnside wins the 2023 David Cohen prize for amazing body of work
‘He casts a spell with language of great beauty, power, lyricism and truthfulness’ said judging chair Hermione Lee of the poet and novelist
Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize
The Guardian writer’s book explores the traumatic legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through those that experienced it
Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy
Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral
Jean-Baptiste Andrea wins Prix Goncourt for novel set in fascist Italy
Award is usually seen as elitist but former screenwriter’s Veiller sur elle has strong sales and is a ‘popular’ read
Graphic short story: Dancing Queen by Anna Readman
Anna Readman has been named winner in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2023. This is her entry
‘It would be amazing if this led to something’: Anna Readman, winner of our graphic short story prize 2023
Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…
Graphic short story: Safe Passage by Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay has been named runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2023. This is her entry