Five Years Next Sunday, about an ostracised girl who ‘holds the fate of her community in her hair’, wins £10,000 award for African writing in English. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Category: Awards
Claire Keegan wins Orwell prize for novel about 1980s Ireland
Small Things Like These takes the political fiction award, while Sally Hayden’s My Fourth Time, We Drowned takes the matching nonfiction honour. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Ada Limón named new U.S. poet laureate
Limón has published six poetry collections and is the host of the podcast The Slowdown. She also teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Belfast poet Michael Longley wins €250,000 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize
Longley has become one of the most successful poets Northern Ireland has ever produced. His trophy cabinet includes the Whitbread Poetry Award, the TS Eliot Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Maddie Mortimer wins the Desmond Elliott prize for Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
The ‘sprawling and ambitious’ debut centres on the author’s relationship with her mother, who died of cancer in 2010. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Author Jesmyn Ward wins Library of Congress fiction prize
The annual Prize for American Fiction honors an American literary writer whose body of work is “distinguished not only for its mastery of the art but also for its originality of thought and imagination.” Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Ukrainian Serhiy Zhadan wins German Peace Prize
The German Publishers and Booksellers Association has awarded the 2022 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan. “We honor this Ukrainian author and musician for his outstanding artistic work as well as for his unequivocal humanitarian stance, which repeatedly motivates him to risk his own life to help people affected by war and thus to call greater attention to their plight,” said the award’s jury. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
St. Paul poet wins 2022 International Griffin Poetry Prize
Douglas Kearney is a St. Paul poet and a University of Minnesota professor. He is the winner of the 2022 International Griffin Poetry Prize and $65,000 for his most recent poetry collection, “Sho.” Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
The Historian George Chauncey Wins the Kluge Humanities Prize
Chauncey, a professor of American history at Columbia, becomes the first scholar in L.G.B.T.Q. studies to receive the $500,000 award. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
Danica Novgorodoff wins Kate Greenaway medal for graphic novel Long Way Down
Danica Novgorodoff’s “innovative” graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds’ novel Long Way Down has won the Yoto Kate Greenaway medal, making it the first graphic novel to win the illustration prize since Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas in 1973. Meanwhile, Katya Balen has won the Yoto Carnegie medal, which celebrates outstanding achievement in children’s writing. The “expertly written” October, October was inspired by Balen’s father-in-law, who lives off-grid. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
