With new Booker rules, is the prize formerly known as the Folio Prize redundant?
The Folio Prize will no longer be the Folio Prize. Like the Orange Prize-turned-Bailey’s Prize, it will have to find a new sponsor and rebrand. After two years funding this… Read more »
Another American! Akhil Sharma wins Folio Prize
The second Folio Prize for Fiction is awarded to an American for his a second novel: Family Life by Akhil Sharma. Sharma’s rendering of an American family is deemed “lucid,… Read more »
The person missing from the Folio Prize announcement: Lord Gavron
One person was missing from yesterday’s Folio Prize announcement, and it wasn’t a snubbed author. Saturday, just before the shortlist announcement, the owner and chairman of the Folio Society passed away. Lord Gavron was 84 and… Read more »