Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist
The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 award
Britain’s imperial legacy in spotlight of Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize
Longlist for 2021 prize includes Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera and Alex Renton’s Blood Legacy alongside 11 other titles
Fiona Foley wins Premier’s literary award for ‘significant truth-telling account’ of Queensland’s history
The Badtjala artist and academic has won the Queensland Premier’s Literary award for Biting the Clouds
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a triumphantly unusual Women’s prize winner
Taking on uncanny relevance this year, this austere story of one man’s isolation explores profound questions of freedom
Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s ‘mind-bending’ Piranesi
Clarke’s follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was praised by judges as ‘a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy’
Wainwright prize for nature writing goes to James Rebanks for English Pastoral
Award comes during booming year for nature books, with sales over the last two months reaching £2.8m
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi favourite to win Women’s prize for fiction
Bookmaker Coral makes Clarke’s second novel 5/2 favourite to take £30,000 award, followed by Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
4thWrite short story prize goes to ‘bold and striking new voice’ Gift Nyoni
Award for the best new black and minority ethnic writers in the UK goes to Zimbabwe-born author for his story of a boy meeting his father for the first time
The new award from the Women’s prize should scrap its age limit
Literary prize culture favours young and marketable writers – and the new Futures scheme is simply adding to the problem
An Island by Karen Jennings review – compact allegory of postcolonialism
This Booker-longlisted fable about the turbulent history of an unnamed African country is small but powerful
Dutch literary prize ceremony cancelled over winner’s comments about convicted ex-president
Astrid Roemer, the Surinamese winner of the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, came under fire after showing support for Dési Bouterse, who was convicted of murder
Sam Byers and Salena Godden shortlisted for the Gordon Burn prize
Six fiction and nonfiction titles are in the running for the £5,000 prize, awarded to a work of ‘dazzlingly bold and forward-thinking’ literature
Anuk Arudpragasam: ‘There’s a lot of laughter in my life, but not when I read’
The novelist, whose A Passage North has been longlisted for the Booker prize, on being inspired by Descartes and the influence of Robert Musil
‘I’ve been poor for a long time’: after many rejections, Karen Jennings is up for the Booker
The South African author struggled to find a publisher for her Booker-nominated novel An Island, which only had a print-run of 500 copies. She talks about rejection, her country and believing in herself
A shared Olympic gold defeats the ‘one champion’ narrative
Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi have helped to upturn preconceptions about success, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett