Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women’s prize for fiction for second time
Winning for Demon Copperhead, a ‘deeply powerful’, US-set Dickens update, the American novelist becomes the first writer to win the contest for a second time
Maggie O’Farrell leads sales ahead of Women’s prize for fiction announcement
Historical novel The Marriage Portrait has sold 72,819 copies – more than any other title on the 2023 Women’s prize shortlist
Call for new writers of colour as entries open for the 4thWrite short story prize
The winner will receive £1,000, and have their story featured on the Guardian website
Nobel literature prize fell into my life ‘like a bomb’, says Annie Ernaux
In conversation with Sally Rooney at Charleston festival author says award has hindered her ability to focus on writing
International Booker winner Georgi Gospodinov: ‘My dystopian novel became real’
The Bulgarian writer opens up about the political fears that informed his prize-winner Time Shelter, about ‘a Pandora’s box of weaponised nostalgia’
Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Judges described None of the Above, Alabanza’s memoir about being genderqueer, as ‘desperately important’, and said every teenager should read Jawando’s young adult novel When Our Worlds Collided
No rhyme or reason: why is poetry missing from the new Caffè Nero book awards?
Despite rising sales in the UK, there is no poetry category in the new writing prize. The reason isn’t a lack of audience but a lack of imagination
International Booker prize announces first ever Bulgarian winner
Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel, portrays a ‘clinic for the past’ and was praised as a ‘great novel about Europe’
Caffè Nero launches major book awards
Like the Costa prizes, scrapped in 2022, the Neros will cover children’s books, nonfiction and novels, emphasising ‘commercial’ titles
Debut author Debra Dank breaks records at NSW premier’s literary awards
The Gudanji/Wakaja writer won four prizes and took home $85,000 for We Come with This Place – a book she never intended to publish
The 2023 International Booker prize shortlist – review
A cautionary Bulgarian tale of nostalgia, an anarchic story set in South Korea and two novels exploring motherhood are among this year’s contenders
‘It’s an opportunity to pull back the curtain’: the rock’n’roll novel is back – from a female perspective
Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles’ tale of a one-hit wonder is the latest in a new wave of music novels written by women
The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2023 – enter now!
The annual award for aspiring cartoonists offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners going on to land film deals
Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’
The writer took the £20,000 award for writers under 39 with his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize for collection of postcolonial poetry
The British-Cypriot poet took the £10,000 award with his third book of poems, which judges described as ‘pushing the confines of form and language’