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Man Booker prize 2018 longlist includes graphic novel for the first time

Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, which explores the disappearance of a young woman, ‘does just what good fiction should do’ – and will compete with Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight

New voices, but less global: the Man Booker longlist overturns expectations

A graphic novel, a thriller, a novel in verse and new writers including Guy Gunaratne and Sophie Mackintosh make for an exciting list

Man Booker prize 2018: what are your predictions for the longlist?

The grandest contest in British literature is about to begin. Whose numbers will come up this year?

Stav Sherez wins crime novel of the year for ‘moving the genre forward’

The Intrusions, in which the case of an abduction reveals online terrors, takes the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier prize

Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘classic’ novel exploring the limits of pregnancy

Anne Charnock’s novel Dreams Before the Start of Time, which focuses on changing reproductive science, hailed as ‘rich but unshowy’ by judges

The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize

The long read: Sweden’s literary elite has been thrown into disarray by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption

Not the small print: Terms and conditions for Not the Booker prize 2018

No contest is complete without an elaborate set of rules. These are ours

Not the Booker prize 2018: nominate your favourite book of the year

The literary award decided by Guardian readers is celebrating its 10th birthday – and now it’s down to you to choose the contenders

The Alternative Nobel: vote opens for a surprising new literature prize

Swedish librarians have drawn up their longlist for the New Academy’s take on the world’s biggest books award. And it really is new

Renaming the Laura Ingalls Wilder award isn’t disturbing, William Shatner – it’s necessary

The Star Trek actor disagrees with the award being renamed because of her racist views on Native Americans, but these kinds of actions are needed

‘It’s the book that gave me freedom’: Michael Ondaatje on The English Patient

The novel has been translated into 38 languages and the film scooped nine Oscars. Now, as The English Patient wins the Golden Booker prize – voted readers’ favourite in 50 years – the author reveals why he could never have been a writer if he’d stayed in Britain

The English Patient wins public poll of best Man Booker in 50 years

Golden Booker names Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel as public’s favourite winner

Man Booker prizewinners criticise decision to allow US writers to enter

Peter Carey calls rule change ‘exercise in corporate branding’ and Julian Barnes says it is ‘daft’

Alternative Nobel literature prize planned in Sweden

After the Swedish Academy cancelled the traditional prize this year, the New Academy plans a parallel honour in October

The Man Booker at 50: flawed – but still the best way to judge our literature

The public is invited to choose a ‘Golden Booker’ from five decades of winners. Time will tell if future readers agree

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