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The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist is announced
Marlon James, Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, M John Harrison, Luke Kennard and debut novelist Rebecca Perry are on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist.
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Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting wins the Hugo Award
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow won the Hugo for best novel at LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention.
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E.J. Swift wins the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award
E.J. Swift's When There Are Wolves Again, published by Arcadia, won the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award in London.
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Two former winners lead the Booker Prize 2026 longlist
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart, both past winners, are among thirteen writers on the 2026 Booker Prize longlist chosen by a panel chaired by Mary Beard.
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Karen Bartlett wins the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Karen Bartlett's The Escape from Kabul won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and Ben Lerner's Transcription the prize for political fiction.
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Beth O'Brien's debut Wolf Siren wins the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing
Beth O'Brien's first novel, Wolf Siren, a reworking of Red Riding Hood, has won both the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Shadowers' Choice Medal.
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Harriet Armstrong, Vijay Khurana and Gurnaik Johal among the 2026 Society of Authors' Award winners
Harriet Armstrong won the Betty Trask Prize and Vijay Khurana the McKitterick Prize at the 2026 Society of Authors' Awards.
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Alice Jolly wins the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for The Matchbox Girl
Alice Jolly's The Matchbox Girl, set in 1930s Vienna, has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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Virginia Evans wins the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026
The Correspondent, a debut novel told in letters, won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction and its £30,000 award.
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Lyse Doucet wins the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026
The BBC's chief international correspondent won the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction with The Finest Hotel in Kabul, her first book.
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Diana Evans, Maggie Harris and Fidan Meikle win the 2026 Jhalak Prizes
The 2026 Jhalak Prizes went to Diana Evans for prose, Maggie Harris for poetry and Fidan Meikle for children's and young adult writing.
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Stephen Graham Jones wins the Nebula for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The 61st Nebula Awards, presented in Chicago, gave best novel to Stephen Graham Jones for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
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Locus Awards 2026: Okorafor, Harrow and Jones win the novel categories
Nnedi Okorafor, Alix E. Harrow and Stephen Graham Jones won the 2026 Locus Awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror novels.
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Taiwan Travelogue wins the International Booker Prize 2026
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's Taiwan Travelogue, translated by Lin King, is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker Prize.
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Sasha Debevec-McKenney wins the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize with a debut poetry collection
The American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has won the £20,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for Joy Is My Middle Name, her debut collection.
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Nobody's Girl is Overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2026
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir Nobody's Girl, written with Amy Wallace, won Overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards on 11 May 2026.
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Daniel Kraus wins the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Angel Down
Angel Down, Daniel Kraus's First World War novel told in a single sentence, has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist is announced
Four debuts and four books from independent presses make the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, chaired by Julia Gillard.
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International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist is announced
Daniel Kehlmann, Marie NDiaye and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ are among six authors on the 2026 International Booker Prize shortlist.
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International Booker Prize 2026 longlist is announced
Thirteen books translated from eleven languages make the 2026 International Booker Prize longlist, chosen by a panel chaired by Natasha Brown.