Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’

In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize

Penguin Random House launches high schoolers’ award to combat book bans

The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorship

Tian Yi wins 4thWrite prize for ‘fantastically original’ The Good Son

Award for short story about a young man reflecting on a small-town childhood includes publication on the Guardian website

Bohdan Piasecki wins best performed poem in new Forward prize category

Piasecki’s ‘electric’ performance of Almost Certainly wins new award that recognises spoken word artists, while Malika Booker, Jason Allen-Paisant and Momtaza Mehri also scoop up prizes

Imprisoned Uyghur academic named 2023 PEN writer of courage

Professor and global expert on Uyghur folklore Rahile Dawut was reportedly sentenced to life in prison after going missing six years ago

Music, history and courageous journalism: Baillie Gifford prize shortlist announced

Judges praise the final six ‘exquisite and ambitious’ works in contention for the £50,000 award for nonfiction

Where to start with: Jon Fosse

Having long been tipped as the next Nobel laureate, the Norwegian writer has this year been awarded the prize. For those new to the acclaimed playwright and novelist, here are some good ways in

Jon Fosse’s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the global stage

The critically acclaimed author is the first ever laureate in the prize’s history to write in Nynorsk and his win marks a further step in the Nordic state’s rise as a cultural powerhouse

Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature

The Norwegian author of novels, short stories and Pinteresque drama was praised by the judges for ‘giving voice to the unsayable’

Nobel prize in literature 2023 won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse – as it happened

Fosse honoured by Nobel committee ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’

Tell us: what does Nobel literature prize winner Jon Fosse’s work mean to you?

We want to hear from Guardian readers about their views on the Nobel literature prize

A saint, a sinner and a sprog: Goldsmiths book prize shortlist announced

Six books are up for the award celebrating innovative fiction, including Benjamin Myers’ account of St Cuthbert and a ‘great trans novel’ set in a small northern town

Bob Mortimer and India Knight among shortlistees for the Wodehouse comic fiction prize

The comedian and the journalist join four others on the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse shortlist, which rewards witty writers with champagne and a pig named after their book

Chinese author Can Xue favourite to win 2023 Nobel prize in literature

Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday

Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah among National Book Award finalists

Winners from 25 finalists across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature will be announced in November