Every prize needs a new sponsor right now: IMPAC Award will be funded by the public
For the first time in twenty years, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award will not be funded by the American productivity company IMPAC. The company is now defunct, and so… Read more »
Booker losses: Ion Trewin and Martyn Goff have passed away
Ion Trewin, journalist-turned-publisher and director of the Man Booker Prize, has passed away at 71. He was diagnosed with cancer last October, but continued to work with the committee through… Read more »
Eleanor Catton vs. New Zealand
Should an acclaimed, award-winning novelist be free to speak out against her home country’s neoliberal politicians without being told by a radio show host to “stick [her comments] where the… Read more »
The first Laureate for Irish Fiction: Anne Enright
Poets laureate are old news. Ireland has just announced its first fiction laureate. And, no brainer, it’s Anne Enright. Enright will take on this role for three years, earning a… Read more »
Man Booker Prize thinks that pub date is a problem
The Man Booker Prize committee announced new rules yesterday. Nothing quite so drastic as opening the prize up to any novel published in English by a UK publisher, but the… Read more »
The Folio Prize adds a new string to its bow
The Folio Society announced in 2013 that it would be launching a new literary prize, and one that would be open to all books written in English, whether or not… Read more »
Behind the Booker scenes: the gaffes and the punch-ups
“There are many things I regret doing and being a judge for the Booker prize is one of them”. This is Paul Bailey, speaking about being a judge in 1982,… Read more »
Yanks out! Changing the Booker rules will damage British literary culture
The Booker Prize is not perfect. Anyone who does not have a book shortlisted on any given year can tell you with annoyance just how much (too much) of books… Read more »
Shortlist for Booker Prize announced
The shortlist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, has been released. The six finalists are: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton… Read more »
Women’s Fiction Prize longlist announced
The Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly the Orange Prize, has announced this year’s longlist. A member of what some call the “trinity” of UK book prizes, including the Man Booker… Read more »