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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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‘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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‘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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Ferdia Lennon Wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for ‘Delightful’ Novel

Ferdia Lennon has been awarded the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, which means a pig will be named after his winning novel, Glorious Exploits. The prize, set up in 2000, seeks to recognise the funniest new novels that best evoke the spirit of PG Wodehouse’s work. As well as the chance to name a gloucestershire old spots pig, the winner receives a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a complete set of the Everyman’s Library PG Wodehouse collection. Read more

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Winners of the National Book Award Announced

Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel “James,” a propulsive and slyly funny retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s companion, an enslaved man named James … The award for nonfiction was given to the anthropologist Jason De León for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling,” an immersive account of the nearly seven years he spent embedded with human smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border. The book depicts traffickers as both victims and perpetrators of violence, often suffering from the same poverty as migrants. Read more

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Richard Flanagan Wins Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize With ‘Astonishing’ Question 7

Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the first person to have won both this award and the Booker prize for fiction. Part-memoir, part-novel, part-history, Question 7 charts Flanagan’s attempt to understand his parents and Tasmania, where he is from. Read more

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