Thursday, 21 June 2018
Preti Taneja has won the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists for We Are That Young (Galley Beggar Press). A reworking of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, We Are That Young is...

Wednesday, 20 June 2018
In the US, Vida, the non-profit organisation for women in literary arts, has found that female writers accounted for less than 40% of articles and reviews at more than half...

Tuesday, 19 June 2018
In the UK, Benjamin Myers has won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Gallows Pole (Bluemoose Books), a novelisation of the true story of 18th-century counterfeiting gang the...

Friday, 15 June 2018
Amazon has drawn criticism from authors, bloggers and publishers for removing reviews from its online book listings, reports the Bookseller. According to reports, some Amazon customers have had all their reviews...

Friday, 15 June 2018
Author Lionel Shriver has been removed as a prize judge by UK-based women’s writing magazine Mslexia, after the author attacked Penguin Random House UK’s inclusion and diversity policy, reports the...

Thursday, 14 June 2018
Irish writer Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (Canongate) has won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. McCormack’s novel, which consists of a single novel-length sentence about a middle-aged Irish engineer who...

Wednesday, 13 June 2018
In the UK, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, reports the Bookseller. Founded in 2009 in honour of the playwright Harold Pinter, the annual prize...

Thursday, 31 May 2018
In the UK, the shortlists for the Forward Prizes for Poetry have been announced. The shortlist for the £10,000 (A$17,570) Forward Prize for Best Collection is: Venus as a Bear...

Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing has reported a 13% surge in total revenues to £161.5 million (A$284.9m) in 2017, its best performance since it was founded in 1986, reports the Guardian. The publisher's global...

Monday, 28 May 2018
The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the shortlist of its Golden Man Booker Prize, a special one-off award to mark the 50th anniversary of the prize. The shortlisted titles, which...

Friday, 25 May 2018
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has announced several measures to improve diversity in bookselling, including providing £50,000 (A$66,910) worth of grants to bookshops, reports the Bookseller. The trade...

Thursday, 24 May 2018
In the US, Audible has announced a partnership with Hello Sunshine, the cross-platform media brand founded by Reese Witherspoon that is dedicated to producing female-driven content, reports Publishers Weekly. Reese’s...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights (trans by Jennifer Croft, Text). Tokarczuk and Croft will each receive £25,000 (A$44,330), as well as a further...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
In the US, the winners of the 2017 Nebula Awards, presented in 2018, have been announced. The Stone Sky (N K Jemisin, Orbit) was awarded Best Novel, and was chosen...

Thursday, 17 May 2018
In the US, two authors have filed a federal lawsuit against educational publisher Cengage, alleging that the company’s new subscription service will improperly cost them sales and royalty payments, reports Publishers Weekly....

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
In the UK, Paris-born Pascale Petit has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her poetry collection Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books). The annual £10,000 (A$18,070) prize is awarded for ‘a distinguished...