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Ashani Lewis takes two prizes at the 2025 Society of Authors' Awards
Ashani Lewis won both the Betty Trask Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for Winter Animals at the 2025 Society of Authors' Awards.
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Andrew Miller wins the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter, set during the harsh winter of 1962-63, has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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Yael van der Wouden wins the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Safekeep, a debut set in the Netherlands in 1961, won the thirtieth Women's Prize for Fiction and its £30,000 award.
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Rachel Clarke wins the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
The Story of a Heart, a doctor's account of a transplant between two children, won the second Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.
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John Wiswell wins the Nebula Award for best novel
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell won the Nebula for best novel at the 60th Nebula Awards in Kansas City.
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N.S. Nuseibeh, Mimi Khalvati and Nathanael Lessore win the 2025 Jhalak Prizes
The 2025 Jhalak Prizes went to N.S. Nuseibeh for prose, Mimi Khalvati for poetry and Nathanael Lessore for children's and young adult writing.
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Translated books win both James Tait Black Prizes for the first time
Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite and Lamia Ziadé's My Great Arab Melancholy won the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes, shared with their translators.
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Heart Lamp wins the International Booker Prize 2025
Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first short story collection to win the International Booker Prize.
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Yasmin Zaher wins the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize for The Coin
Yasmin Zaher's debut novel The Coin has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded to writers aged 39 or under.
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Alexei Navalny's Patriot named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2025
Patriot, Alexei Navalny's memoir, won Overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards on 12 May 2025.
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Percival Everett's James wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
James, Percival Everett's retelling of Huckleberry Finn, has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, adding to its National Book Award.
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International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is all independent presses
For the first time, every book on the International Booker Prize shortlist came from an independent publisher.
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Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is announced
Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout are shortlisted alongside four debut novelists for the 30th Women's Prize for Fiction.
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International Booker Prize 2025 longlist is announced
Thirteen translated books, all by authors nominated for the first time, made the 2025 International Booker Prize longlist chaired by Max Porter.
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Butter by Asako Yuzuki is Waterstones Book of the Year 2024
Waterstones named Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton, its Book of the Year 2024.
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Nelly Sachs's collected poems win the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Revelation Freshly Erupting, Andrew Shanks's translation of Nelly Sachs's poetry, has won the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
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Percival Everett wins the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction for James
Percival Everett's James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's point of view, has won the US National Book Award for Fiction.
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Richard Flanagan wins the Baillie Gifford Prize, with a condition attached
Richard Flanagan won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7 but said he would not take the £50,000 until the sponsor set out a fossil fuel plan.
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Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital
Orbital, a 136-page novel set aboard the International Space Station, won the £50,000 Booker Prize at a ceremony in London.
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Rachel Cusk wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2024 for Parade
Rachel Cusk's Parade won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould of the novel.