The Guardian view on book prizes: the more the merrier

Editorial: The Booker prize may have lost some of its prestige, but that allows other awards – and different books – to shine

Stormzy’s prize for new writers reveals inaugural winners

Poet Monika Radojevic and novelist Hafsa Zayyan both receive the #Merky Books award, named after the rapper’s publishing imprint

Women’s prize for fiction goes to ‘utterly moving’ Tayari Jones novel

An American Marriage, recording the damage done to a young black couple by the husband’s wrongful jailing, beats two Booker winners to £30,000 award

‘People don’t expect women to be funny’: Marian Keyes on Comedy women in print shortlist

Revealing the five books in contention for the inaugural prize, Keyes hit out at the internalised sexism leading readers to assume women can’t write comedy

Hillsborough survivors’ words shortlisted for Forward poetry prize

Truth Street by David Cain, which combines eyewitness accounts of the 1989 disaster, is nominated for best debut in year when ‘poetry has come down from its high shelf’

Man Booker International prize: Jokha Alharthi wins for Celestial Bodies

First female Omani novelist to be translated into English shares £50,000 prize with translator Marilyn Booth – the first time an Arabic book has won

Raymond Antrobus becomes first poet to win Rathbones Folio prize

The Perseverance, using the writer’s experience of deafness to explore human communication, was praised by judges as ‘exceptionally brave and kind’

Guy Gunaratne wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘urgent’ London novel

British-Sri Lankan’s debut In Our Mad and Furious City, set on a housing estate during riots sparked by the murder of a British soldier, wins £30,000 award

Ondaatje prize: Aida Edemariam wins for vivid biography of her grandmother

Guardian journalist’s The Wife’s Tale takes the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature award for a work best evoking ‘spirit of a place’

Sally Rooney trumps Michelle Obama to book of the year title

Despite the former first lady’s memoir Becoming rapidly outselling Rooney’s Normal People, British book award judges give top prize to Irish writer

Richard Powers: ‘I’ve read more than 120 books about trees’

The Pulitzer-winning author of eco-novel The Overstory on Extinction Rebellion, his many alter egos and the brilliance of Robert Macfarlane

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi review – masterly study of power and its abuses

The Pulitzer-nominated novelist develops the issues raised by #MeToo within the setting of a suburban American drama school

Never mind the quality, feel the ‘woke’ – Green Book, The New Negro and white guilt

The best picture Oscar and the Pulitzer for biography have been bestowed on problematic and inferior works on race

Simon Armitage named UK’s poet laureate

West Yorkshire writer speaks of parents’ pride and his desire to ‘give something back’ as he succeeds Carol Ann Duffy

Will Eaves: ‘Life is chancier than we imagine: we’re never far from the edge’

Fresh from winning the Wellcome prize last week, the novelist talks about creativity, frustration and finding inspiration in the code breaker Alan Turing