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Prizes
Tananarive Due's The Reformatory wins the World Fantasy Award for best novel
The 2024 World Fantasy Awards, presented in Niagara Falls, gave best novel to Tananarive Due's The Reformatory.
Fairs and festivals
Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 reports 230,000 visitors, with Italy as guest of honour
The 76th Frankfurter Buchmesse ran from 16 to 20 October 2024, with Italy as guest of honour and 230,000 visitors across trade and public days.
Prizes
Han Kang is awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The South Korean novelist Han Kang, author of The Vegetarian, became the first Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Fairs and festivals
Super Thursday 2024 brings nearly 1,900 new books
Super Thursday fell on 10 October 2024, with about 1,900 books due, including 457 hardbacks, according to The Bookseller.
Fairs and festivals
Cheltenham Literature Festival marks its 75th year
The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival ran from 4 to 13 October 2024, marking 75 years since it was founded in 1949.
Prizes
Ross Raisin wins the BBC National Short Story Award
Ross Raisin won the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award and £15,000 for Ghost Kitchen, a story narrated by a bicycle courier.