With a record number of entries, half of the ten shortlisted books are debut collections that the judges describe as ‘unflinching in their explorations of love and grief, brutality and desire’
The Bahraini activist who is serving a life sentence in prison for his role in anti-government protests was chosen to share the PEN Pinter prize by Malorie Blackman
A study of the violence of Britain’s empire, Oliver Cromwell’s commonwealth and the present day refugee crisis are among five books by women vying for this year’s £50,000 first prize
With its swathe of award-winning writers and distinctive blue covers, the independent press takes risks on boundary-pushing writing – and it’s paying off
She offers us her own life, her own pain, without shame – and gives voice to the silences of women. For this the Nobel prizewinner deserves to be celebrated
Writer and critic Catherine Taylor explains how the French writer became the ‘great chronicler to a generation’• Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’ ‘extraordinary’ work sits alongside a field of creatively ambitious writing that finds new ways of telling stories
The 26-year-old, who drafted the story about ‘complex family dynamics’ when she was 19, takes a £15,000 prize for the piece taken from her debut collection Send Nudes