Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize review – a hilarious jaunt
This documentary tracked the progression of the Booker prize from intimate award to gape-mawed monster
Not the Booker prize 2018: Rebecca Ley wins with Sweet Fruit, Sour Land
The judges have overturned the public vote and awarded the 2018 prize to Rebecca Ley’s post-apocalyptic vision
Man Booker prize shortlist 2018: how do the final six stand up?
The thrilling diversity of the longlist is gone, and picking a winner remains a fool’s game, but this year’s last half-dozen are all worthy contenders
Alternative Nobel literature prize goes to Maryse Condé
The New Academy prize, organised to fill the gap left by the cancellation of 2018’s official award, goes to Guadeloupean novelist
Jesse Ball’s ‘strange and beautiful’ Census wins Gordon Burn prize
Judges praise fable inspired by the author’s late brother as perfect match for prize’s ambition to reward writing ‘that dares to enter history’
Booker judges shouldn’t blame editors for overlong novels
Authors take the credit when their books win prizes, and it should be admitted that they are also responsible for their failings
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accepts PEN Pinter prize with call to speak out
Arguing that authors have a duty to ‘call a lie a lie’, novelist also names human rights activist Waleed Abulkhair as the 2018 International Writer of Courage
Not the Booker prize: vote now for the 2018 winner
It’s been a fine competition, and the panel are readying their verdicts. But your choices will be decisive. You have just under a week to pick a favourite
Has the Booker prize lost its mojo?
Rows, gaffes and disdainful speeches have always kept the Booker prize in the news. But now, a creeping sense of bad decision-making is undermining its cachet
Is there still no place like home? $100,000 offered for the best answer
This year’s Nine Dots prize asks for a 3,000-word response, which will be rewarded with the cash prize and a book commission
Why we need an award for writers who start later in life
Some authors worry they are past it at 30, forgetting the careers of Chandler, Defoe and many others. Which is where the Christopher Bland prize comes in
Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale
Seeing off an all-female shortlist, the Trinidadian writer’s story The Sweet Sop - about an estranged father and son united by chocolate – scooped the £15,000 prize
Jean-Claude Arnault, man at centre of Nobel scandal, jailed for rape
Stockholm court sentences husband of Swedish Academy member to two years in prison
Robin Robertson: ‘The poetry world is polarised. I’m in the middle, vaguely appalled’
The Man Booker shortlisted writer on his love for Jane Bowles and biographies, and why he never gives books as presents
Carnegie medal promises immediate action over lack of diversity
The UK’s oldest prize for children’s books is to be restructured after a report into failings that left 2017’s award shortlist entirely white