“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” Read more
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Category: Awards
Winners of the 2025 Edgar Awards Announced
MWA is proud to announce the winners for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024. The 79th Annual Edgar Awards were celebrated on May 1, 2025 in New York City. Read more
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Fiona McFarlane Wins Story Prize for Her Collection ‘Highway Thirteen’
The Story Prize is an annual book award established in 2004 that honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award. Each of two runners-up receives $5,000. Read more
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Winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes Revealed
The Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced the eight winners of their 2025 awards, with Sigrid Nunez and Anne Enright among the writers receiving $175,000 grants that honor outstanding literary achievement … The Windham-Campbell Prizes, administered by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, were first awarded in 2013. Previous recipients include Teju Cole, Hilton Als, Cathy Park Hong, and Hanif Abdurraqib. Read more
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Aleksei Navalny Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Hisham Matar won the fiction prize, and Sandra Cisneros received the lifetime achievement award … The awards, which were announced Thursday at a ceremony at the New School in New York City, are among the most highly regarded literary prizes in the United States. The winners are chosen by book critics instead of committees made up of authors or academics, which is how most literary prizes are administered. Read more
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Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” Read more
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‘The First State of Being’ and ‘Chooch Helped’ Win Top Children’s Book Awards
The books The First State of Being and Chooch Helped have won the Newbery and the Caldecott awards, respectively — the biggest honors in children’s literature. The awards were announced Monday morning at the American Library Association’s annual Youth Media Awards. Read more
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Mick Herron Wins Diamond Dagger Award
British writer Mick Herron, best known for his Slough House series beginning with Slow Horses, has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger award for lifetime contribution to crime writing. Read more
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‘Transcendental Beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s ‘Fierce Elegy’ Wins Him TS Eliot Poetry Prize
Judges for the £25,000 award say the collection, informed by grief for his two brothers, ‘braves large questions’ with its lyric sequence. Read more
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‘The Philosopher Fish’ Claims the Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire earned 27% of the public vote, just ahead of How to Dungeon Master Parenting, which itself was a hair in front of Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. Read more
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