Olivia Douglass wins 4thWrite prize for ‘gripping’ short story Ink
Tale of friends reuniting and secrets unravelling will be published by the Guardian in award run jointly with publisher 4th Estate
Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems, about butch lesbian culture, wins Polari prize
In the UK’s only dedicated awards for LGBTQ+ literature, Adam Zmith’s history of poppers and children’s book Nen and the Lonely Fisherman were also honoured
Goldsmiths prize goes to collaborative duo Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
Their novel Diego Garcia, which took a decade to complete and addresses the losses of the Chagos islanders, wins prize for innovative fiction
Brigitte Giraud becomes 13th woman to win Prix Goncourt
Vivre Vite, an autobiographical novel about the death of her husband, wins France’s most prestigious literary award
British-Egyptian hunger striker may die in prison, Nobel laureates warn world leaders attending Cop27
Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been on hunger strike for six months and will refuse water from 6 November, the first day of the climate summit
Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles
Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fiction can do’
The Guardian view on the Booker: one award with hundreds of judges
Editorial: Many have an opinion on the latest winner of the UK’s top literary prize, Shehan Karunatilaka. It’s a shame not all of them have read his book
Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it
Thomas Keneally shares $50,000 book prize with fellow nominees
The 87-year-old Australian author, who won the ARA Historical Novel prize, says he ‘wanted to help some of the other writers’ because of how hard it is to make a living as a writer
‘Vividly realised’ global stories on 4thWrite prize shortlist
The short story competition for unpublished writers of colour, run by the Guardian and 4th Estate, features a domestic child worker in Pakistan and a physics professor whose psyche splits in two
‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams
Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better
Booker prize: it has been six years since an Australian was nominated. What gives?
The prize still holds immense power for Australian sales, but a 2014 rule change made it harder for local books to get a look-in
Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man – but it’s a novel full of life
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a photographer during Sri Lanka’s civil war, has tremendous comic energy
Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambition
Peter Robinson obituary
Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world