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A memoir completed by a friend wins the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
And the Walls Became the World All Around, by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, has won the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
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Lucy Steeds's debut The Artist is Waterstones Book of the Year 2025
Waterstones named The Artist, Lucy Steeds's debut novel set in 1920s Provence, its Book of the Year 2025, after it had won the chain's debut prize.
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Rabih Alameddine wins the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
Rabih Alameddine has won the US National Book Award for Fiction for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).
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David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for Flesh
David Szalay's sixth book, Flesh, won the 2025 Booker Prize, making him the first British-Hungarian author to take the £50,000 award.
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CD Rose wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 for We Live Here Now
CD Rose's We Live Here Now, a novel built from linked stories and published by Melville House, won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize.
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Helen Garner's diaries win the Baillie Gifford Prize
Helen Garner's How to End a Story: Collected Diaries is the first diary to win the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
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The Tainted Cup takes the World Fantasy Award in Brighton
Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup won best novel at the 2025 World Fantasy Awards, presented at the convention in Brighton.
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British Fantasy Awards 2025 presented in Brighton
O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade won best fantasy novel at the 2025 British Fantasy Awards, presented during the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton.
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László Krasznahorkai is awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Masud Husain's Our Brains, Our Selves wins the Royal Society science book prize
Neurologist Masud Husain's debut, Our Brains, Our Selves, won the £25,000 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for 2025.
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Colwill Brown wins the BBC National Short Story Award in its 20th year
Colwill Brown won the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award and £15,000 for You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle, written in South Yorkshire dialect.
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Six novels make the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
Kiran Desai, David Szalay and Andrew Miller were among six established novelists on the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist, which contained no debuts.
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Raising Hare wins the Wainwright Prize book of the year
Chloe Dalton's debut, Raising Hare, won the 2025 Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the overall book of the year award.
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The Tainted Cup wins the Hugo Award for best novel
Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup won the Hugo for best novel at Seattle Worldcon 2025.
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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is announced
Thirteen novels, including new work by Kiran Desai, Tash Aw and David Szalay, made the 2025 Booker Prize longlist chosen by a panel chaired by Roddy Doyle.
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Anna Mazzola wins the 2025 CWA Gold Dagger for Book of Secrets
Anna Mazzola's Book of Secrets, set in seventeenth-century Rome, has won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year.
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Sierra Greer's Annie Bot wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer, published by The Borough Press, won the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction.
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Victoria Amelina wins the Orwell Prize for Political Writing posthumously
Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina, who was killed in 2023, won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
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Locus Awards 2025: Boldizar and Kingfisher take the novel prizes
The 2025 Locus Awards went to Alexander Boldizar for science fiction and T. Kingfisher for fantasy, with Chuck Tingle winning horror.
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Margaret McDonald becomes the youngest winner of the Carnegie Medal for Writing
Margaret McDonald, 27, has won the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing for Glasgow Boys, becoming the youngest winner in the medal's history.