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Will All Quiet on the Western Front really conquer all at the Baftas?

The German-language film has 14 nominations, and great resonance with the Ukraine war, but I suspect a good number of the gongs will go elsewhere

Baftas 2023: the full list of nominations

All the films and actors up for awards at the 76th edition of the British Academy film awards

TS Eliot prize winner Anthony Joseph: how poetry helped me love my absent father

The writer on switching from rock to poetry and how Sonnets for Albert explores his relationship with a missing parent who became an almost ‘mythological figure’

Anthony Joseph wins TS Eliot prize for ‘luminous’ poetry collection

Joseph takes £25,000 prize for Sonnets for Albert, which weighs the impact of growing up with a largely absent father

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2022: Nicolas Rothwell and Mark Willacy win major prizes

Rothwell’s second novel collected the fiction prize with Willacy’s follow-up to his 2020 investigation Killing Field winning for non-fiction

RuPaul’s Drag Race essay collection wins oddest book title of the year award

RuPedagogies of Realness wins the Bookseller/Diagram prize ahead of What Nudism Exposes and Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian

Nobel prize an institution ‘for men’, says literature laureate Annie Ernaux

Awards are ‘bound to tradition’, says French writer, praised by academy for ‘the courage and clinical acuity of her work’

What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?

With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Carson and Mary Gaitskill honoured by Royal Society of Literature

New authors chosen for the RSL International Writers programme, championing ‘the power of literature to transcend borders’, are announced

Kim Moore wins Forward poetry prize for ‘phenomenal’ poems about everyday sexism

All the Men I Never Married took the £10,000 award for best collection, while Stephanie Sy-Quia and Nick Laird were also winners in other categories

Graphic short story: Midnight Feast by Rebecca Jones

Rebecca Jones has been named winner in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is her entry

Graphic short story: Autumn 2014 by Michael Lightfoot

Michael Lightfoot has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is his entry

Graphic short story: The Lift by Ed Firth

Ed Firth has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is his entry

‘What will I spend the money on? Pens’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2022

It was seventh time lucky for Rebecca Jones in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists with her story of three girls camping out in a suburban garden

‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner

Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island

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