Literary Awards News
The 2026 Inside Literary Prize, judged entirely by incarcerated readers, went to The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa.
Mary Beard chairs a 2026 Booker Prize panel that selected 13 novels from 163 submissions, with returning winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James.
Virginia Evans won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Correspondent. She wrote seven unpublished novels before it.
Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker Prize. The first Mandarin Chinese book to win.
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