The UK’s Bollinger Prize, celebrating its 25th anniversary, awarded the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction to Rosanna Pike and the Vintage Bollinger Prize to Marina Lewycka.
UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner
David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.
Australia’s Helen Garner Wins the UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction
‘A fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer’s life,’ Helen Garner’s win is a first for a diary.
Lyndal Roper’s ‘Summer of Fire and Blood’ Wins Montreal’s Cundill Award
What jurors call a ‘sensational account’ of a 16th-century European uprising wins this year’s Cundill History Cundill History Prize in Montreal.
The UK’s Booker Prizes Open a £50,000 Children’s Award
The Booker Prize Foundation says that its newly announced Children’s Prize has been three years in the planning.
Sunil Amrith Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize
‘Interconnections between human history and environmental transformation’ are the focus of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize win.
Frankfurt: Elmiger Wins the €25,000 German Book Prize
Just days before Frankfurter Buchmesse opens, the German Book Prize goes to ‘The Dutch Women’ author Dorothee Elmiger.
Nobel Laureate László Krasznahorkai Speaks at Frankfurt
The Hungarian author and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai is scheduled to speak at Frankfurt Buchmesse’s opening news conference.
US National Book Awards Name 2025 Shortlists
The United States’ National Book Awards are to be conferred on winners in November.
Anne-Solange Noble Is Awarded France’s Medal d’Honneur
The former chief of rights at Gallimard, Anne-Solange Noble wins La Médaille de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in Paris.