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Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Industry
Government report sets aside AI training exception with opt-out
The UK government's report on copyright and AI says a broad exception with an opt-out is no longer its preferred approach.
Fairs and festivals
London Book Fair 2026: a last year at Olympia and an authors' protest over AI
The London Book Fair ran from 10 to 12 March 2026, its last year at Olympia before a move to ExCeL, as authors protested over AI training.
Fairs and festivals
World Book Day 2026 joins the National Year of Reading
World Book Day 2026 fell on Thursday 5 March, as part of the UK's National Year of Reading, with £1/€1.50 tokens valid from 12 February to 15 March.
Prizes
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.
Industry
National Year of Reading launches under the banner Go All In
The Department for Education and the National Literacy Trust have launched the National Year of Reading, with the campaign line Go All In.
Industry
UK print book sales slipped again in 2025, Nielsen reports
NielsenIQ BookScan data show UK print book spending down 0.5% and volume down 2.5% in 2025, with fiction again the strongest sector.
Industry
Public Lending Right rate rises to 12.40p per loan
The government will set the Public Lending Right rate at 12.40p per loan for the 2024/25 scheme year, up from 11.76p.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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).
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.
Prizes
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.