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 »
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 »
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 »
You’re welcome, world literature! U.S. authors dominate Folio shortlist
Remember when the Folio Society came up with a new prize last year, and this rumor circulated that the Man Booker was under pressure to open up its award outside… Read more »
Announcing a new prize for Jonathan Franzen to win
The Folio Society announced a new literary prize yesterday. The forty thousand pound prize is to be awarded to an English language book of fiction published in the UK. It… Read more »