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The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948) who the Swedish Academy members praised "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."
The Prize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 [5] – was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010), [5] Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine ...
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The categories' winners are selected from hundreds of preliminary nominees – "from 150 titles (Translated Literature) to upwards of 600 titles (Nonfiction)." [ 1 ] Since 2013, a long list of ten entries for each of the categories has been selected and announced in September, followed by five finalists for each category in October, with the ...
National Book Award–Translated Literature: Elisa Shua Dusapin with Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.) Winter in Sokcho [213] National Book Award–Young People's Literature: Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club [213] National Book Critics Circle Award: National Book Critics–Fiction: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du ...
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing ...
Costa Book Awards (discontinued in 2021) Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author first published in the UK during the two preceding years. Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English ...