On Wednesday, Oct. 8, Kirkus Reviews, the leading pre-publication journal of book reviews in the United States, revealed the literary works that took home the ultimate prize during a ceremony in New York City. The annual awards recognize the best releases in fiction, nonfiction and young adults’ literature, with each winner receiving a $50,000 prize. Read more
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Announcing the prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, the Nobel Committee praised Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Read more
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AIR MAIL has announced the winners of its two 2025 Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes: Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection (NYRB 2025), for fiction and Meghan Daum, author of The Catastrophe Hour (Notting Hill Editions 2025), for reportage. Read more
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The Library of Congress has announced Arthur Sze as the 25th U.S. poet laureate. Sze has had a decades-long career as a poet, with his work often drawing inspiration from philosophy, science and nature. He’s also an editor and translator of poetry. Sze will start on Oct. 9, taking over from Ada Limón. Read more
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Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare (Canongate Books) has been named the 2025 Wainwright Prize Book of the Year, the world’s leading literary award for nature and conservation writing. Read more
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One of the world’s most highly regarded authors, Saunders has now been welcomed into an elevated — and most dignified — pantheon. The National Book Foundation announced Friday that it has named him this year’s winner of a National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters, a lifetime achievement medal given to Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and Edmund White among others. Read more
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On Saturday, the 2025 Hugo Awards were presented at Seattle WorldCon, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention. Read more
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The 2025 winners of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century. Read more
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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is “a tightly focused first-person account of a robot designed to be the perfect companion, who struggles to become free,” said chair of judges, the academic Andrew M Butler. Read more
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Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town. Read more
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