Forward poetry prizes shortlist former young people’s laureate Caleb Femi
Poor is in line for the Felix Dennis first collection award, while the contenders for best collection are praised for their ‘limitless’ ambition
David Diop wins International Booker for ‘frightening’ At Night All Blood Is Black
Diop is the first French writer to win the prize for translated fiction – split with his translator Anna Moschovakis – for novel about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in the first world war
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Makumbi wins book of the year for her novel The First Woman, while Lawrence takes inaugural children’s books prize for Eight Pieces of Silva
Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award for Lost Children Archive
Novel, which weaves together the stories of Mexican migrants with those of a US family on a road trip south, was picked for the prize by a Barcelona library
Republic of Consciousness prize shares £20,000 pot among longlist
Shola von Reinhold wins the award for small publishing houses with their novel LOTE, but financial reward split among 10 publishers
Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Swedish Academy documents reveal debate over naming the dissident writer the 1970 literature laureate, four years before his exile from the Soviet Union
Raven Leilani wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘fearless’ novel Luster
US author wins £20,000 award for writers under 39 – the age Thomas died – for her debut about a black woman who starts dating an older white man in an open marriage
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn review – ‘Am I human?’
Shortlisted for the International Booker prize, this science-fiction satire on corporate language is a miracle of concision
The Butchers: novel set in Irish BSE crisis wins Ondaatje prize
Ruth Gilligan’s thriller about eight men who cull cattle in rural Ireland wins £10,000 for books that ‘best evoke the spirit of a place’
Cherie Jones: ‘I found my tribe on the pages of John Wyndham’s Chrysalids’
The Women’s prize nominee on the brilliance of Earl Lovelace, the influence of Toni Morrison, and laughing out loud at Nora Ephron’s chutzpah
Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees
Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood among the six authors up for the £30,000 award
Phosphorescence: Julia Baird’s bestseller wins book of the year
Journalist takes top gong and the non-fiction category at the Australian Book Industry Awards, with Archie Roach and Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku among other winners
Frances McDormand wins third best actress Oscar for Nomadland
McDormand Academy award for her role in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, second only to Katharine Hepburn in number of best actress Oscars
Nomadland wins best picture Oscar as Chloé Zhao makes history with best director win
Film about retirees struggling to make ends meet takes the top prize at the Academy Awards, while Chloé Zhao becomes first woman of colour to take the directing prize
International Booker prize shortlist led by books ‘pushing the boundaries’ of fiction
Writers including Maria Stepanova and Éric Vuillard are up for the £50,000 prize, with the judges swaying for essays and autofiction over ‘good, straightforward, old-fashioned novels’