Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017
We are delighted to announce that Anuk Arudpragasam has won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, published by Granta. From The Bookseller: Arudpragasam was awarded the $25,000 (£18,830) prize along with a unique trophy by Hon’ble Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, minister of finance of Bangladesh […]
Caroline Moorehead on 2017 Baillie Gifford Longlist
We are delighted to announce that Caroline Moorehead’s A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Chatto & Windus) has been longlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction. Read more about the prize and the longlist here. Read about and buy the book here.
Julianne Pachico is longlisted for the 2017 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Long List
We are delighted to announce that Julianne Pachico has been longlisted for the 2017 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize! Read more about the prize here.
Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill wins third major prize
Francis Spufford has been awarded the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize for his “miraculously constructed” debut Golden Hill (Faber). Set in New York in 1746, when the now-famous sprawling metropolis was just a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, Golden Hill tells the story of Mr Smith – a mysterious young man who […]
Anne Sebba is presented with the Franco-British Society Book Prize
Anne Sebba has one the Franco-British Society Book Prize for her book Les Parisiennes. The award is presented annually to the author of a work published in the UK which is considered to have contributed most to Franco-British understanding. Read more about the Franco-British society here and read more about Anne’s book Les Parisiennes here.
Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill wins RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2017
“This is that rare thing – an ingenious novel that draws on profound research to evoke the spirit of another age, yet wears that research lightly. An astonishing achievement, intoxicating in its virtuosity.” Henry Hitchings – RSL Ondaatje 2017 Judge We are very pleased to annouce that Francis has won the Ondaatje Prize with Golden Hill. Golden […]
Francis Spufford on RSL Ondaatje Prize and Desmond Elliott shortlists
Congratulations to Francis Spufford, whose first novel GOLDEN HILL is on the RSL Ondaatje Prize shortlist. The prize is awarded annually to a book of the highest literary merit – fiction, non-fiction or poetry – which best evokes the spirit of a place. The winner will be announced on 8th May, and you can read […]
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford is on the Folio Prize shortlist
We are delighted to announce that Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill is on the newly resurrected Folio Prize shortlist. The winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017 will be announced on 24th May 2017 at a ceremony at the British Library. Read more about the prize and the shortlist on the Guardian.
Lyndal Roper is on Wolfson History Prize Shortlist and Elizabeth Longford Prize Shortlist
Very many congratulations to Lyndal Roper whose historical biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Bodley Head) is one of six books shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. First established in 1972, and awarded annually, the Wolfson Prize is Britain’s foremost history prize promotes and encourages standards of excellence in […]
Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me makes 2017 Baileys Prize Shortlist
We are delighted to announce that Stay With Me has been shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Read more about the ‘daring’ and ‘intimate’ shortlist on the Baileys Prize website here and on the BBC website here. Read interviews with Ayobami in The Bookseller and The Guardian. From today’s Bookseller: Nigerian debut novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ has been […]