Not the Booker prize 2020: nominate your favourite book of the year
Returning for its 12th year, our collective search for the year’s best novel gains its bracing charm from readers’ involvement – so we need your votes by 1 August
Tara June Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin award for her book The Yield: ‘It broke my heart to write it’
Wiradjuri author accepts Australia’s top literary prize from her home in France, describing the novel as ‘a handbook for truth’
Two Tribes by Chris Beckett review – 250 years after Brexit
Hungry, flooded and under surveillance, Britain in 2266 feels the impact of civil war and a climate catastrophe
‘The prize of all prizes’: Teacher Kate Clanchy’s memoir wins Orwell award
Judges praise Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which draws on three decades working in schools, as ‘moving, funny, and full of love’
‘Living legend’ Linton Kwesi Johnson wins PEN Pinter prize
The pioneer of dub poetry has been hailed for his ‘political ferocity’ and ‘tireless scrutiny of history’
Merky author Derek Owusu wins Desmond Elliott prize for ‘profound’ debut
That Reminds Me, a semi-autobiographical novel about foster homes and mental health that was published by Stormzy’s imprint, wins £10,000 award
Four new collections up for the Forward poetry prizes – review roundup
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz; Citadel by Martha Sprackland; Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles; and The Air Year by Caroline Bird
Natalie Diaz: ‘It is an important and dangerous time for language’
The Native American and Latinx poet’s Postcolonial Love Poem has been shortlisted for the Forward prize for best collection
Graphic novel about warring ice-cream trucks scoops first for Wodehouse prize
Matthew Dooley’s Flake wins the annual award for comedic fiction ‘in the spirit’ of the Jeeves and Wooster creator PG Wodehouse
Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authors
Booker foundation vice-president removed after ‘homophobia’ row
Move comes after Emma Nicholson’s views on same-sex marriage were called attention to by writers, publishers and agents
Authors call for removal of Booker prize vice-president over ‘homophobic’ views
Emma Nicholson’s views on same-sex marriage raised as concern by writers and one former Booker winner
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘It’s shocking that people don’t understand Britain’s involvement in slavery’
Ahead of Windrush day, Orwell shortlisted writers Evaristo and Amelia Gentleman talk about politics, art and giving a voice to the powerless
Shaun Tan becomes first BAME author to win Kate Greenaway medal
Tales from the Inner City wins illustration prize, while Anthony McGowan takes the Carnegie medal for his novel Lark
Fictional portrait of Jo and Edward Hopper wins Walter Scott prize
£25,000 award for the year’s best historical novel goes to Christine Dwyer Hickey’s The Narrow Land, which depicts the artists’ marriage