One of the biggest days in the literary calendar arrives next week on 9 November, when the winner of what is one of the most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize, will be announced.
CoverEvery year, the Booker Prize offers a glimpse of what’s capturing the literary world’s attention. The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist takes readers from imagined futures to the complexities of family life, with novels that linger on questions of identity, memory and belonging (Reading, 1890 by artist Georges Croegaert. Photo: Heritage Art/Heritage Images
The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize, announced on Tuesday, includes 13 books covering a variety of genres, from thriller to dystopian science-fiction to love story. Two previous winners have again made the prestigious list – Douglas Stuart, who won shuggie bann in 2020, and Marlon James, who won the award in 2015 A Brief
Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Award. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1 and December 31, and were narrowed down to 19 books by more than 500 authors, librarians, booksellers and others. The shortlist
Author and poet Rebecca Perry has won the 2026 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for May We Feed the King, which has been praised as a “delicious and dreamlike story”. Selected from a shortlist of six novellas, May We Feed the King is the story of a present-day curator whose job it is to decorate rooms
what a trip! Zamir Nazir, one of three finalists for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, was charged with using AI to create his work. won the overall award. ICYMI: The online allegations began shortly after the Commonwealth Foundation in May announced the five regional winners who will compete for the overall prize. reader, writer, and
American author Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell Prize for political fiction for Transcription, a novel that explores technology and memory. In nonfiction, the award went to Karen Bartlett for The Escape from Kabul, based on Afghan women lawyers who are endangered after the fall of Kabul in 2021. Award, which aims to highlight
Leading literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize after widespread allegations of the use of AI were made against one of this year’s winners. The magazine said it would no longer engage in “external publishing partnerships” over which it has no editorial control. In a
Today, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundationwhich “celebrates writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to promote peace,” announced the finalists for its 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (for books published in 2025). Each winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize, and the first runner-up will receive a $5,000 cash prize. Here are