Children’s Laureate of Wales wins Imison Award
Winner announced by Nick Imison at the BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony
What’s the T? by Juno Dawson, illustrated by Soofiya, wins the UK’s sole award for creative educational writing
‘With a powerful charge of optimism and lived experience, it is witty and funny without being flippant, and practical without being dull’
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award announces shortlist
Celebrating four writers ‘who have set themselves free of publishing conventions’
Catch up with the 2022 Translation Prizes
If you missed the 2022 Translation Prizes award ceremony, you can watch the live stream, find out the winners and see photographs from the event at The British Library here
Marta Dziurosz’s ‘truly astounding’ translation from Polish wins TA First Prize
Marta Dziurosz and editors Željka Marošević and Sophie Missing take the 2022 prize for a translation of Marcin Wicha’s Things I Didn’t Throw Out.
Announcing the shortlists for the 2023 Imison and Tinniswood Awards
Seven writers shortlisted for the BBC Audio Drama Awards
A new approach and a literary prize for the writer-carer
For the writer-carer. A new, more vigorous approach and a new literary prize Many who read this piece will be carers. If you are not one now, you may be later. Some of us will always be in this role. A carer (I use the NHS definition) is anyone who looks after a family member,…
Kamila Shamsie wins 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie has been named as the winner of the £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction at an awards ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens this evening.