‘Biography’ of Nineteen Eighty-Four leads Orwell prize longlist

Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth is among the contenders for the political writing award named after the dystopian classic’s author

International Booker prize shortlist led by 28-year-old’s debut

The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld joins five other ‘expansively imagined’ novels contending for £50,000 award

Prize shares £10,000 between publishers amid coronavirus damage

Fitzcarraldo Editions wins Republic of Consciousness prize for publishing Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s Animalia, but money is split between five tiny presses

Eight authors share $1m prize as writers face coronavirus uncertainty

Bhanu Kapil, Yiyun Li and Namwali Serpell are among the winners of the 2020 Windham Campbell literary prize

Maria Tumarkin on winning the 2020 Windham Campbell: ‘It feels like a complicated gift’

The Australian writer discovered she was one of eight to win a share of $1.32m on the day the coronavirus crisis became official

Ali Cobby Eckermann on winning the world’s richest writing prize: ‘It’s taken time to adjust’

Poet lived in a caravan when she heard she had won $215,000. Ahead of this year’s Windham Campbell, she reflects on what that recognition can bring

Stella prize 2020: Charlotte Wood, Favel Parrett and Tara June Winch make shortlist

Josephine Rowe’s short story collection also honoured while Jess Hill and Caro Llewellyn round up nonfiction

Appropriation or plagiarism? Booker novel poses difficult question

International Booker prize nominee Willem Anker has made use of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction - but is this sufficiently acknowledged?

Ockhams erase her: surprise as Elizabeth Knox left off books award shortlist

Shock in New Zealand as writer, heavily favoured to win the fiction prize, is absent from list of nominees

Women’s prize for fiction lines up ‘heavy hitters’ on 2020 longlist

Three Booker winners lead a 16-strong field contending for £30,000 prize in what judges described as ‘an extraordinary year’

Beyond Mantel: the historical novels everyone must read

From Francis Spufford to Sarah Waters, contemporary writers have brought new complexity and playfulness to historical fiction

Anne Enright: ‘A lot of bad things happen to women in books. Really a lot’

She began a novel about the dark side of Hollywood – and then the Weinstein scandal broke. The Booker-winner on mothers, marriage and misogyny

Small presses loom large on International Booker prize longlist

Nine of 13 nominated titles for this year’s £50,000 award for the best translated fiction come from indie publishers

Rathbones Folio prize: Zadie Smith makes female-dominated shortlist

Eight books in contention for £30,000 award that has never been won by a woman include Zadie Smith’s story collection Grand Union and poet Fiona Benson’s Vertigo & Ghost

Hilary Mantel: ‘I’ve got quite amused at people saying I have writer’s block. I’ve been like a factory!’

As the long-awaited final volume of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy is published, the twice Booker winner discusses her writing life and why she wants to write a play of her controversial Margaret Thatcher story