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 morning after the Folio Prize winner was announced, another prize shortlist came to our attention: the Man Booker International Prize, one of the most interesting prizes around. Launched in… Read more »

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 »

It started with French translator Alison Anderson’s blogpost for Words Without Borders back in May, where she broached the issue of the extremely low numbers of fiction in translation by women.… Read more »

Goodreads has been running its readers’ choice awards since 2009, and this week, the voting just opened for the 2013 round, with the winners to be announced at the end… 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 »

Yesterday, two people — one in Arizona and one in Missouri — found out that they will be sharing a $587.5 million lottery prize. According to CBS News, a record-breaking… Read more »

Where Pulitzer refrained, Carnegie leapt. Just a month after the Pulitzer Prize board could not agree on the year’s best work of fiction and didn’t give out its annual award,… Read more »

The Man Asian Literary Prize is awarded annually for the best novel written (or translated) in English by an Asian author. This year, Melville House author Banana Yoshimoto is among… Read more »

Tomas Tranströmer received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature in a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. According to The Local, an English-language Swedish news site, “On the menu, which was—as… Read more »