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Awards

• Granta editor: Leeds is “completely out of the literary world”

  While the response to Granta’s latest crop of “Best of Young British Novelists” has been largely positive—the list has been widely and deservedly praised for its diversity—comments made by the… Read more »

• Get to know Granta’s new novelists

  We know, it’s tough. You’ve only just now managed to finish Midnight’s Children and Granta goes and announces its list of Best of Young British Novelists. 20 new writers you… Read more »

• Ode to IMPAC Dublin and Translations

  Five out of ten of this year’s shortlist nominees for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, often billed as “the world’s richest literary award,” but more precisely the world’s richest… Read more »

• The White Review announces Short Story Prize shortlist

  The shortlist for the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize was announced earlier this week. The competition, which opened for submissions in December, will award the prize to a writer… Read more »

• Booker judges unveiled

  The Man Booker Prize judges for 2013 were announced earlier this week, as the literary award heads into its 45th anniversary. The BBC reports that one of its own journalists,… Read more »

• “The Welsh publishing industry is nothing more than a parasitical, elitist carbuncle on the hide of a struggling Welsh economy”

  No book prize longlist may stand without a backlash, and this year’s Man Booker is no exception. Alan Bissett writes in The Guardian that the list, and the prize’s past… Read more »

• The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, or why to eat your manuscript

  The new Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were awarded a couple of weeks ago at the annual American Library Association conference—Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz won in… Read more »

• Top audiobook award goes to Tina Fey; Jane Austen defeats Kardashians

  Earlier this week, the Audio Publishers Association presented its annual awards for excellence in audiobook publishing. The Audie Awards, or Audies, are typically given out in conjunction with BEA, in… Read more »

• Terry Pratchett wins book award, booze, pig

  Earlier this week, prolific fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett won the UK’s only prize for comic writing, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. In addition to the prestige and recognition that… Read more »

• Cannes likely to honor literary film this year

  The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing this week, and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins has surmised that its coveted prize, the Palme d’Or, will most likely be presented to… Read more »