Apocalyptic road trip story wins the Waterstones children’s book prize

The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail – about a family’s trip across Malaysia during the impending end of the world – wins the older readers category, the overall prize and £5,000

Carnegie medal for writing announces all-female shortlist

Seven authors are in the running for prize celebrating outstanding achievement in children’s writing

Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Prize for writing by 11-14-year-olds inspired by ‘imagination and curiosity’ of Martha, who died in 2021 aged 13

International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate ‘ambition and panache’

The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work

All Quiet on the Western Front wins best international feature film Oscar

German-language war epic triumphs in the category for non-English language films

Hay festival to hold inaugural Eurovision book contest

Submissions will be made by the public as books festival parters with famed music event for a literary showdown

‘It’s its own little world!’: why we should learn to love the Oscars more

With the relevancy of the Oscars still in question before this week’s event, writer Michael Schulman explains why they should be examined rather than ignored

Baillie Gifford prize: six books shortlisted for ‘winner of winners’ award

Finalists for honour spotlighting the best of the non-fiction prize’s 25-year history include studies of the Beatles, Shakespeare and the Treaty of Versailles

Maggie O’Farrell and NoViolet Bulawayo make Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Nine debut novels are among the 16 books up for the 2023 award, alongside novels by Natalie Haynes, Sophie Mackintosh and Barbara Kingsolver

British independent publishers thrive despite Brexit and Covid pandemic

Small press of the year award shortlists 48 presses that are ‘reaping the rewards from inspirational publishing’, says British book awards chair of judges

The Guardian view on philanthropy in the arts: a bare necessity of life

Editorial: The old models are broken, budgets are shrinking, but where there is a will there is a way – even in the hardest of times

‘Big books by blokes about battles’: why we need the Women’s prize for nonfiction

Authors and publishers discuss the gender imbalance in nonfiction writing, and ask whether the newly announced award can redress it

Women’s prize to launch annual award for women’s non-fiction writing

The Women’s Prize Trust hopes to make the first award in 2024, after research showed female writers were far less likely than men to be reviewed or win prizes

NoViolet Bulawayo and Margo Jefferson join ‘exciting’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

The Guardian view on Irish film: laughing all the way to the Oscars

Editorial: A record crop of nominations is a reward for decades of investment across the creative industries. The British government should take note