A celebration of inclusivity and ‘the power of story’ as 70-year old debut novelist Anne Youngson joins Rathbones Folio Prize winning poet Raymond Antrobus, Romany writer Damian Le Bas and Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist Nadifa Mohamed in share of Society of Authors’ £100,000 ‘night of riches’.
The 2019 TA First Translation Prize is now open for entries.
International bestselling author Heather Morris, independent bookseller Samuel Fisher and 81-year old debut novelist Norma MacMaster shortlisted for £100,000 Society of Authors’ Awards night.
The Society of Authors is delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson (Allen Lane).
The Society of Authors is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.
Announcing our esteemed panel of award-winning judges for the SoA’s annual night of literary riches.
New award to celebrate first time novelists over the age of 60 at the 2019 Society of Authors’ Awards in June.
Sophie Yanow’s translation of Pretending is Lying celebrated in Scott Moncrieff Prize – one of seven prizes for literature in translation awarded at The British Library on 13 February 2019.
Cath Senker has won the 2018 Educational Writers’ Award – the UK’s only award for creative educational writing – for her book ‘Far From Home: Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty’, on the sensitive portrayal of mass migration in the 21st Century.
The Society of Authors and the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2018 Educational Writers’ Award, the UK’s only award for educational writing that stimulates and enhances the learning experience.
The SoA has today announced the opening of the new Paul Torday Memorial Prize for Debut Novelists over 60. The prize is open for entries from today until 15 November 2018. British writer Paul Torday (1946-2013) published his first novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen aged 60. The Torday family have set up the new…
Writers and poets from across the globe were celebrating tonight (Thursday 19 July) as the 2018 Authors’ Awards were announced by the Society of Authors at a ceremony at RIBA. Hosted by Stephen Fry with an introduction by the President of the SoA, Philip Pullman, eight awards were presented to 31 writers with a host of debut names joining recognised writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry to share a prize fund of £98,000.
