What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more

As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world

‘Not every day was like Trainspotting’: Orwell prizewinner Darren McGarvey on class, addiction and redemption

The author of Poverty Safari, better known as the rapper Loki, believes you can break out of the cycle of grinding poverty, abuse and addiction. And he should know – he is the living proof, he says

American librarians defend renaming Laura Ingalls Wilder award

Professional body the ALA says the Little House on the Prairie author’s ‘complex legacy’ of racist attitudes was not consistent with its values

Reading group: Help choose a Booker prize winner to read in July

The Golden Man Booker prize judges are making their choice – but we want your ‘gold’. The author will win our attention for a month. Please vote!

Orwell books prize goes to Poverty Safari by Scottish rapper Loki

Judges said the polemical study of deprivation, written using his real name, Darren McGarvey, was ‘exactly the book’ that Orwell would have wanted to win

‘It is like being on psychedelic drugs’: Benjamin Myers on the strange world of literary prizes

Heading to the Scottish Borders to win the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction, Myers takes a strange literary trip involving Gordon Brown and a lot of potted shrimp

Preti Taneja’s ‘awe-inspiring’ reimagining of King Lear wins Desmond Elliott prize

We That Are Young, which reimagines King Lear in modern India, wins £10,000 award after early struggles to find a publisher

Carnegie medal winner slams children’s book publishers for ‘accessible’ prose

Geraldine McCaughrean, accepting award for Where the World Ends, warned that restricting the language children read risks creating a future underclass who are ‘easy to manipulate’

Miles Franklin 2018 shortlist: Gerald Murnane gets first nod in 44-year career

Previous winners Michelle de Kretser and Kim Scott have also been shortlisted for the award

Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award with one-sentence novel

Solar Bones, the Irish author’s fifth book, is told by a ghost on All Souls’ Day and was turned away by major publishers as too uncommercial

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins PEN Pinter prize

Nigerian author wins award in memory of the late Nobel laureate for her ‘refusal to be deterred or detained by the categories of others’

Kamila Shamsie: ‘We have to find reasons for optimism’

The award-winning writer on prophecy, political pessimism and her love of London

Kamila Shamsie wins Women’s prize for fiction for ‘story of our times’

Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ Antigone to tell the story of a British family caught up by Isis, takes £30,000 award

Reporter by Seymour Hersh review – memoir of a giant of journalism

The reporter who exposed the My Lai massacre and the CIA’s illegal domestic spying in the 1970s continues to be a rebel outsider

Marian Keyes attacks ‘sexist imbalance’ of Wodehouse prize

Novelist admits to ‘grudge’ against comic fiction prize that has never shortlisted her work, and only gone to a woman three times in 18 years