Two authors, one prize: competing with my spouse for the same award

We have shared each other’s books as we share our lives. So it’s more than a little odd to be lined up against each other on the Portico prize shortlist

Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden

The literature laureateship, due to be presented in Stockholm on Tuesday, faces boycotts and widespread protest

Book prize judge alleges co-jurors did not finish reading shortlist

Lesley McDowell was one of five judges for the Saltire Scottish fiction book of the year, but claims gender bias slanted decision against Lucy Ellmann

Nobel winner Peter Handke avoids genocide controversy in speech

Literature laureate accused of supporting Slobodan Milošević gives inaugural lecture

‘Ignorant questions’: Nobel winner Peter Handke refuses to address controversy

New literature laureate tells journalists ahead of prizegiving that it is the wrong moment to question his support for Slobodan Milošević

‘Gross hypocrisy’: Nobel heavyweight to boycott Peter Handke ceremony

Peter Englund, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and current member, refuses to celebrate the controversial 2019 literature laureate

‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win

News presenter alluded to her joint victory with Margaret Atwood but failed to give the name of Girl, Woman, Other’s author

Fairview: the Pulitzer winner whose creator hopes it has a short shelf life

Jackie Sibblies Drury thinks her acclaimed play, and the stereotypes it presents, will soon go out of date. As it comes to the Young Vic, she and director Nadia Latif explain why

Bad sex award twosome: prize goes to Didier Decoin and John Harvey

‘Britain’s most dreaded literary prize’ for bad sex in fiction awarded to the novels The Office of Gardens and Ponds and Pax

Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations

Two members of the committee set up to oversee reforms to the scandal-rocked award announce they are leaving

The Guardian view on truth and art: fiction as a guide

Editorial: Ambiguity and complexity – Keats’s ‘negative capability’ – are missing from our world today

Oddest book title prize: Dirt Hole Variations beats War on Artisan Cheese

Guide by the late Charles L Dobbins, known as the father of modern trapping, sees off polemical defence of traditional dairies

I was nominated for the Bad sex award. Don’t laugh

This book prize doesn’t only encourage disdain for authors on the basis of a few sentences, it feeds a dangerously censorious culture

Bad sex award: shortlist announced for ‘Britain’s most dreaded literary prize’

Dubious honour lines up contenders for the year’s most ‘outstandingly awful’ sexual scene, with Elizabeth Gilbert and Didier Decoin among the nominees

Debut author of Queenie caps success with Costa prize shortlisting

Candice Carty-Williams, who began writing to improve representation of black British characters in fiction, joins 19 other authors contending for prestigious book of the year honour