Lee Lawrence’s memoir of his mother’s shooting by police wins Costa award
The Louder I Will Sing wins best biography, with other prizes including best novel for Monique Roffey and posthumous poetry honour for Eavan Boland
Memorial by Bryan Washington review – a masterclass in empathy
This impressive debut novel, a follow-up to the award-winning story collection Lot, inhabits a gay relationship from both sides
John le Carré never won the Booker – but then he preferred it out in the cold
The late novelist was a shadowy giant of post-war British fiction, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Prime Minister’s Literary awards: Tara June Winch wins in record-breaking year for Indigenous work
Winch becomes the first Indigenous author to win both Australia’s major writing prizes in the same year for her novel the Yield
Bad sex award cancelled as public exposed to ‘too many bad things in 2020’
Prize for ‘unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in sound literary novels’ will resume in 2021
Nobel literature prize winner Louise Glück reveals ‘panic’ in acceptance speech
On Monday it was also announced that the poet will publish a new collection, Winter Recipes from the Collective, in 2021
Hervé Le Tellier wins Prix Goncourt as France’s books world begins to reopen
L’anomalie secures country’s leading books prize, which was delayed this year in solidarity with bookshops forced to close by lockdown
Don’t go breaking my art: it’s time to axe the mood-ruining, bar-scrambling interval
Covid has forced pianist Stephen Hough to play at different times – without a break. And he’s loved it so much, he doesn’t want to ever go back
Graphic short story: Similar to But Not
Paul Rainey has been named winner in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2020. This is his entry
‘You need to look outside your own window’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2020
Loneliness, isolation and grief were common themes in this year’s Cape/Observer award. But the winner made the judges laugh out loud
A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins oddest book title of the year
Anthropological study of metaphor takes 2020 Diagram prize, pulling ahead of Introducing the Medieval Ass in public vote
Costa book awards: Susanna Clarke nominated for second novel after 16-year wait
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell author picked for Piranesi, alongside Denise Mina, Julian Barnes and the late Eavan Boland, in prizes for ‘enjoyable’ books
Beatles biography One Two Three Four wins Baillie Gifford prize
Craig Brown wins prestigious award for nonfiction with book that judges say ‘has reinvented the art of biography’
Shuggie Bain’s tale tells us that the Booker prize has matured
A Scot’s success led to uproar in 1994 – but not this year, with the triumph of Douglas Stuart. Maybe the award is growing up
Booker winner Douglas Stuart: ‘I owe Scotland everything’
The author of Shuggie Bain talks about growing up in Glasgow in the 80s, the dangers of ‘poverty safari’ and what he’ll do now he has won the prestigious literary prize