The winners of the Costa Book Awards were announced Tuesday, honoring Claire Fuller and Caleb Azumah Nelson among the authors with the annual British Literary Awards. Fuller won the Best Novel Award for Troubled Ground, published in the US last…
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation has announced the winners of the first-ever Silvers-Dudley Awards, presented each year in recognition of outstanding achievements in literary criticism, art writing and journalism. The foundation announced three winners in the field of long-term literary…
The jury for the Booker Prize 2022, one of the most prestigious anglophone literary awards in the world, has been announced. The Booker Prize Foundation announced the lineup in a press release on Tuesday. The panel will be chaired by…
The Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of their annual special awards on Wednesday. The writing organization has named Laurie R. King as its grandmaster for 2022. The California-based author is known for her novels featuring San Francisco police…
The Mystery Writers of America announced the finalists for Edgar Awards, which include authors SA Cosby, Will Leitch and Elon Green in the running for the prestigious literary awards. Cosby has been nominated in the Best Novel category for razor…
We Need Diverse Books has announced the winners and accolades of the Walter Dean Myers Awards in 2022, which are presented each year to books for young readers that “contain diverse protagonists and address diversity in a meaningful way.” The…
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for their annual literary awards, with the shortlists including Colson Whitehead, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Clint Smith and Patrick Radden Keefe. The organization, consisting of more than 600 critics and book critics, announced…
Tom Lin and Hanif Abdurraqib are the winners of this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medals from the American Library Association. The ALA announced the recipients of its annual literary awards at a virtual event on Sunday. Lin won the fiction award…
The American Library Association announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, which include Donna Barba Higuera, Jason Chin, Carole Boston Weatherford and the late Floyd Cooper. Higuera won the John Newbery Medal, awarded to the most outstanding contribution to…
PEN America announced the finalists for the 2022 Literary Awards, with Joy Williams, Percival Everett and Dantiel W. Moniz as authors in the running for the annual awards. Williams shortlisted for the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, given to an…
The 10 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize have been announced, with Torrey Peters, Colson Whitehead and Kaitlyn Greenidge among the authors in the running for the $50,000 literary prize. This is the second year for the award, given to…
Dublin City Council announced the (very, very long) long list for the Dublin Literary Award 2022, with 79 books in the running for the prize for a novel written in or translated into English. Among the US nominees for the…