We know, it’s tough. You’ve only just now managed to finish Midnight’s Children and Granta goes and announces its list of Best of Young British Novelists. 20 new writers you… Read more »

Five out of ten of this year’s shortlist nominees for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, often billed as “the world’s richest literary award,” but more precisely the world’s richest… Read more »

The shortlist for the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize was announced earlier this week. The competition, which opened for submissions in December, will award the prize to a writer… Read more »

The Man Booker Prize judges for 2013 were announced earlier this week, as the literary award heads into its 45th anniversary. The BBC reports that one of its own journalists,… Read more »

No book prize longlist may stand without a backlash, and this year’s Man Booker is no exception. Alan Bissett writes in The Guardian that the list, and the prize’s past… Read more »

The new Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were awarded a couple of weeks ago at the annual American Library Association conference—Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz won in… Read more »

Earlier this week, the Audio Publishers Association presented its annual awards for excellence in audiobook publishing. The Audie Awards, or Audies, are typically given out in conjunction with BEA, in… Read more »

Earlier this week, prolific fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett won the UK’s only prize for comic writing, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. In addition to the prestige and recognition that… Read more »

The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing this week, and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins has surmised that its coveted prize, the Palme d’Or, will most likely be presented to… Read more »

When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »