Booker Prize

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (218+ words) TORONTO - Order of Canada member Michelle Good is among the five finalists for Canada’s richest fiction award. The Giller Prize announced the short list for the prestigious award on Monday. Good is nominated for “Eliza Sunshine,” a multi-generational family saga that…...

7+ hour, 57+ min ago   (672+ words) Elana Rabinovitch, executive director of the Giller Prize, stands on stage during the awards ceremony in Toronto, in November, 2024.Chris Young/The Canadian Press A fisherman from Prince Edward Island, a bestselling author born in Tehran, a Métis television and…...

7+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1071+ words) Tara Gereaux, Michelle Good, Nicholas Herring, Nazanine Hozar and Patmeena Sabit are the five writers shortlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize. The $100,000 award annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction. The 2026 shortlist features five novels, covering a wide range of material,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1022+ words) Sunday Times books editor This year marks the 36th anniversary of the non-fiction award, which has, over the decades, showcased the most acute and incisive non-fiction writing in SA. The fiction prize, now in its 25th year, honours the authors who enthral…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (165+ words) Digital editor: Sunday Times Books The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist season has arrived! First up, the fiction prize, where “the winner should be a novel of rare imagination and style, evocative, textured and a tale so compelling as to…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (552+ words) This year’s longlist features ten works of non-fiction that offer compelling perspectives on modern and contemporary India The longlisted books explore an impressive array of themes and genres from memoir-histories and data-rich reassessments to ethnographies and biographies. They reflect the…...

3+ day, 12+ min ago   (288+ words) Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice King’s College will welcome Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and literary translator Angela Rodel for a talk and reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Burke Auditorium in the McGowan School of Business on the College’s campus. Admission…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (537+ words) We’re thrilled to share that Samantha Josephs’ CARRYING (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) has been shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize! Inaugurated in 2006, the First Novel Prize honors the best debut novel of the year and supports emerging…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (548+ words) The six stories on the shortlist for the 10th year of the writing award run by 4th Estate and the Guardian and open to unpublished writers of colour are ‘affecting in new and surprising ways’, said judge and author Gurnaik Johal The…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (670+ words) October 2, 2026 Awaal Gata Arts & Books 0 Nigerian writer and filmmaker Onyeka Nwelue has been shortlisted for the 2026 ANA/King Dakolo Prize for Fiction with his latest novel, Murder in Orania, placing him among three writers in contention for one of the…...