Lucy Ellmann’s long sentence leads to Goldsmiths shortlist
Prize for mould-breaking fiction lists Ducks, Newburyport alongside innovative works by Mark Haddon, Deborah Levy, Amy Arnold, Vesna Main and Isabel Waidner
Jo Lloyd wins BBC national short story award for ‘timeless’ tale
Welsh writer takes £15,000 prize for The Invisible, based on a real 18th-century woman who spread tales in her village
Queensland literary awards 2019: Melissa Lucashenko and Trent Dalton shortlisted for top prize
Miles Franklin winner and bestselling novelist vie for $25,000 premier’s prize for a work of state significance
$625,000 ‘genius grants’ go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers
The MacArthur Foundation honours, which encourage winners to ‘continue to innovate’, also won by Valeria Luiselli, Lynda Berry and Emily Wilson
Hundreds of authors protest after Kamila Shamsie’s book award is revoked
Nelly Sachs prize was withdrawn over Shamsie’s support for boycotting Israel, prompting more than 250 fellow writers to defend her stance
Kamila Shamsie’s book award withdrawn over her part in Israel boycott
Nelly Sachs prize was given to Shamsie this month, but its German jury has reversed decision because of the novelist’s pro-Palestinian activism
This is Happiness by Niall Williams review – love and loss in rural Ireland
Rich in sentiment and humour, this evocation of an Irish village in the 1970s examines grief, faith and first love
All hail Tina Fey: the funniest comic of the 21st century
From skewering Sarah Palin to handing us Liz Lemon on 30 Rock, here are 10 of the SNL legend’s most hilarious moments
Won’t stick: reports of Margaret Atwood’s 2019 Booker prize win greatly exaggerated
Organisers rush to clarify that judges have not yet decided beyond the shortlist after bookshop brands copies of The Testaments as the winner
Turkish author jailed for life nominated for £50,000 book award
Assembled from notes, Ahmet Altan’s I Will Never See the World Again is up for Baillie Gifford prize alongside Guardian and Observer journalists Amelia Gentleman and Laura Cumming
A book, then a play, now Litvinenko’s story is coming back to the small screen
The murdered Russian dissident’s case is to become an ITV drama. And the National Gallery gets first dibs on a baroque masterpiece
Bernardine Evaristo on Woolwich: ‘We weren’t allowed to play outside’
The Booker-shortlisted novelist on the garrison town on the edge of London where she was first introduced to the writing of James Baldwin and Buchi Emecheta
The Guardian view on Margaret Atwood and the Booker: a testament to fiction
Editorial: The prize has come in for justified criticism, its rules are imperfect. But this year’s authors are an exciting prospect
French novelist ruled out of major prize after antisemitic drawings emerge
Yann Moix, 51, says he is ashamed of his student magazine work but judges of the prestigious Prix Goncourt feel he has courted too much controversy
The Booker prize shortlist resists easy reading
From the detonation of the domestic in Ducks, Newburyport to Don Quixote’s reincarnation in Quichotte, this year’s finalists challenge our assumptions