Posts Tagged ‘ Awards and prizes ’

Lionel Shriver's absolutely right, of course (I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it, 3 September). There's no rational reason why fiction written by women shouldn't be accorded the same critical and commercial respect routinely given ...
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The City and the City and The Windup Girl draw equal numbers of votes for prestigious science fiction prizeFor only the third time in its 57 years of existence there has been a dead heat in the Hugo award for best novel, with China Miéville's The City...
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In the fourth in our series of interviews with authors longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize, Michelle Pauli talks Theresa Breslin about writing historical fiction for a modern audienceHistorical fiction for teens may not be as in vogue ...
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Ten titles contend for £10,000 award, with subjects covered including everything from the itinerant experience of the Somali community to Churchill's 'black dog'The past vies with the future and poetry with prose on the longlist of the 2010 Guardian f...
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Your chance to win the 10 books on the Guardian first book award longlist, from fiction and non-fiction to poetry
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China Miéville's The City and the City and James Enge's Blood of Ambrose among those shortlisted for best novel prizeIs it crime? Is it science fiction? Is it fantasy? China Miéville's bizarre tale of a murder investigation, The City and the City, ha...
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My shortlisting for the PEN/Ackerley prize allowed me to join Booker unfortunates Julian Barnes and Colm Tóibín in the distinguished ranks of the overlookedMy favourite event at a recent writers' festival was entitled Judges and Winners and featured ...
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Right up until his death this week, the work of Scotland's national poet Edwin Morgan seemed infused with a universal appeal and a timelessness that few other poets may ever achieveEdwin Morgan was a singular voice in a country with a literary traditio...
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Carol Ann Duffy and others pay tribute to a 'generous, gentle genius' known for the variety and inventiveness of his workCalled "poetry's true son" by Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet Edwin Morgan has died aged 90.Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poe...
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From Drummer Dick's Discharge to Shag: The Story of a Dog, there are plenty of contenders from literary history for the Guardian's newest award. Send us your nominationsMany of us are familiar with the Diagram prize for the oddest non-fiction book titl...
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