Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 2024 Booker Prize Winner, sold more copies in the UK than any other title on the shortlist.
The UK’s £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction Names Its 2024 Shortlist
In its 55th year, the United Kingdom’s Booker Prize for Fiction names its first shortlist to include a Dutch author’s work.
The UK’s Booker Prize For Fiction: 2024 Longlist
The 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction longlist includes two titles from independent publishers, as well as a Dutch and a Native American writer.
UK: Isabella Hammad Wins the Royal Society’s 2024 Encore Award
The winner of the RSL’s Encore award, Isabella Hammad, says that it’s in writing a second novel that ‘a writer really becomes a writer.’
The UK’s Royal Society of Literature Names an ‘Encore’ Shortlist
The ‘Encore’ contest for second novels has been administered by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature since 2016.
UK: The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction’s First Shortlist
New this year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction issues its first six-title shortlist of books exploring art, history, technology, and more.
UK: Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 Longlist: Eight Debuts
Eight of the 16 longlisted novels in the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction are their authors’ debut publications, now in competition.
The UK’s New £30,000 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction Issues Its First Longlist
The Women’s Prize Trust in the United Kingdom releases the first 16-title longlist in its new Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.
Ireland’s Paul Lynch Wins the 2023 Booker Prize for Fiction
‘Prophet Song,’ Irish author Paul Lynch’s fifth novel, is a study in contemporary literary intensity, winning the Booker Prize for Fiction.
In England: The Booker Prize’s Four-Nation Shortlist
With the winner’s announcement set for November 16, the Booker Prize for Fiction tonight has released its 2023 shortlist of six titles.