2015 Man Booker Prize longlist announced
Alex Shephard
Now in its second year of being open to authors of any nationality, as long as they’ve published in the UK, this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist is headlined by… Read more »
Now in its second year of being open to authors of any nationality, as long as they’ve published in the UK, this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist is headlined by… Read more »
Author Nicola Griffith researched fifteen years of literary awards, and she concludes in The Bookseller yesterday that novels written from a female perspective are less likely to receive a prize. You’ve heard… Read more »
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 »
On Tuesday, the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Krasznahorkai is the author of a seven novels, four of which—Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War and War, and Seibo Down Below—are available… Read more »
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 »
The Man Booker Prize took a double-whammy a few weeks ago when both longtime director Ion Trewin and his colleague Martyn Goff passed away. The prize is what the Booker is… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
In October, Australian author Richard Flanagan was named the winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction—recently expanded to include any novel written in English, beyond the former restriction that… Read more »