‘A true work of art’: Evie Wyld wins $50,000 Stella prize for The Bass Rock

The author’s third novel spans three eras to give voice to the ‘collective grief’ of violence against women. In 2021, it couldn’t be more timely

Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title over trans comments

American Humanist Association criticises academic for comments about identity using ‘the guise of scientific discourse’, and withdraws its 1996 honour

Rathbones Folio prize paid £30,000 to scammers posing as the winner

‘Sophisticated cyber-criminals’ took Valeria Luiselli’s winnings, though a similar fraud attempt on the Baillie Gifford prize was foiled

Peter Bradshaw’s Baftas 2021 predictions: who will win – and who should

Our film critic picks his winners ahead of the big night – and the gems left off the nominations list altogether

Women’s prize condemns online attack on trans nominee Torrey Peters

Open letter had claimed that the longlisting of the Detransition, Baby author signalled that female writers were unworthy of their own prize

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o nominated as author and translator in first for International Booker

Kenyan novelist’s The Perfect Nine is first work written in an indigenous African language to be longlisted

Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Severe illness refigures you – it’s like passing through a fire’

The Women’s prize winner reflects on the life‑threatening virus that shaped her writing, the superstitions that held her back, and why her prize-winning novel Hamnet speaks to our times

Teacher wins UK poetry prize with poem on dual heritage

Marvin Thompson, of Jamaican heritage, says he wrote it as a gift for his children, ‘to their future selves’

Debut authors dominate on ‘extraordinary’ Dylan Thomas prize shortlist

Six ‘bold, inventive’ writers including Raven Leilani and Kate Elizabeth Russell are in line for the £20,000 award

Carmen Maria Machado wins Rathbones Folio prize for queer abuse memoir

The US author says In the Dream House, which has won the £30,000 prize, opens up the rarely broached subject of abuse within the LGBTQ+ community

Translator Kate Briggs among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners

Briggs, whose book This Little Art focuses on the ‘strangenesses and paradoxes’ of translation, wins one of eight $165,000 grants aiming to give authors financial independence

Shortlist for Carnegie medal offers locked-down children ‘hope and escapism’

Run simultaneously with the Kate Greenaway medal for illustration, judges say this year’s finalists should inspire and empower their young readers

First trans woman makes Women’s prize longlist, alongside Dawn French and Ali Smith

Torrey Peters among 16 finalists, with chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo lamenting lack of older writers

I used to think fiction was indulgent. Judging the Women’s prize reminded me it is essential

I thought I would read more novels once the news slowed – I didn’t expect the emotional impact of reading so much fiction in lockdown, writes Nesrine Malik