Chuck Wendig, Wanderers (Del Rey), Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature. The prize differs from other awards of its type in that, instead of a judging panel made up of literati, the shortlist is compiled by postgraduate students from the University of Edinburgh, and the winners selected by senior staff at the university. And this is the world of Agnes Bain, his glamorous, calamitous mother, drinking herself ever so slowly to death. It is also a great human novel.”, Finalists: John Vercher, Three-Fifths (Agora) Lorin Stein, History of Violence (Picador) (Sarah Crichton), “From the opening pages of Miracle Creek, Angie Kim creates an intense atmosphere of foreboding and suspense, building swiftly to the event that triggers the rest of her debut novel, unraveling so many lives and lies … This novel is a stunner, emotionally packed, with separate characters delivering internal plot twists and turns. Winners of this prestigious award receive a prize of £10,000. Putnam’s Sons) And Other Arcane Ways of Saying It's Going to Snow a Lot, TFW Your Twitter Account Gets Stolen and There's Nothing You Can Do, Rebecca Solnit: When the President of Mediocrity Incites an Insurrection. One of these five winners is then crowned Costa Book of the Year. Awards are given across the five categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translation and young people's literature. The only book award curated by booksellers and chosen by readers, the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards celebrates the most-loved books that've been published and read across the UK and Ireland that year. (Houghton Mifflin), “Griffiths alternates points of view among Clare, her 15-year-old daughter, Georgie, and DS Harbinder Kaur, the queer policewoman in charge of the murder investigation. The 2019 winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize was Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. (Knopf), “Everything Inside is a haunting, profound collection by Edwidge Danticat—an answered prayer for those who have long treasured her essential contributions to the Caribbean literary canon … With little introduction, we drop into people’s lives midcrisis, just as they’re confronting choices from which there’s no turning back; these characters feel not like strangers, but close friends … How does an artist write so deftly from the outside about people’s interior lives? Explained: This year’s Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain, and its debutant author Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain is an autobiographical novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. Her stories are insightful, painfully honest and deeply unsettling—a dynamite combination in a new writer on the scene.”, –Alexis Burling (San Francisco Chronicle), Finalists:  Relevant, haunting, and inspiring, this is one of the best books of 2019.”, Finalists: “Such an undertaking is an enormous challenge, but O’Farrell is passionately steeped in the period … The utter fluency with which O’Farrell glides across years and decades, never lingering in one timeframe for long yet never confusing the reader, has always been one of her most remarkable achievements as a writer … Once the illness leaps from Judith to Hamnet in August 1596, the novel becomes a breathtakingly moving study of grief … O’Farrell’s portrait of maternal and sibling bereavement is so accurately expressed it’s almost too painful to read. Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Henry Holt) Man Booker Prize Awarded for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. Thrown into the mix are excerpts from The Stranger, itself a delicious homage to writers like M.R. The 2020 winner of the Political Fiction Book Prize is Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys. Ayse Papatya Bucak, The Trojan War Museum (W. W. Norton) Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron) Established in 2006, the award seeks to honour the freshness and vitality of the work of Swansea's favourite son, the poet Dylan Thomas. The book would be just about unbearable were it not for the author’s astonishing capacity for love. The violent rains, the traffic, the perennial security threat—these scenes wonderfully evoke the city’s ability to make its inhabitants feel claustrophobic … Aridjis’s protagonist is so rich and interesting because she is full of contradiction. Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Redhook). The 2020 winners of the Forward Prizes are Caroline Bird's The Air Year for Best Collection, Will Harris' RENDANG for Best First Collection and Malika Booker's 'The Little Miracles' for Best Single Poem. Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (Vintage), An annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. Yoko Ogawa, tr. Centred around a religious farming family torn apart by grief after the death of their son, The Discomfort of Evening was praised for its evocative use of language and translator Michele Hutchinson's encapsulation of its 'wild, violent beauty'. Peter Heller, The River (Knopf) But, Aridjis excels at writing a life lived in the borderlands between reality and fantasy, conveying the imagination of a 17-year-old with whims and fancies that are intriguing rather than exasperating or laughable.”, –Ellen Jones (The Los Angeles Review of Books), Finalists: Awarded for distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. Tina Kover, Disoriental (Europa) Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday (Catapult) Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Tor) Fully booked: Seven books to read this spring(25 Mar 2020)Including a powerful debut, a gothic read and a fast-paced YA, Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart to headline Paisley Book Festival(26 Nov 2020)The author of Shuggie Bain will be joined by Andrew O'Hagan and Graeme Armstrong for the festival's second edition, Holiday reads: Books to enjoy and gift this Christmas(22 Oct 2020)Featuring Hilary Mantel's stunning conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, several Booker nominees and riveting Scottish fiction, Best cookbooks to buy or gift this Christmas(20 Oct 2020)Gift ideas for the best books filled with delicious recipes to try this winter. Seanan McGuire, Middlegame (Tor) Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries Fernanda Melchor, tr. Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight (FSG) Prize money: $25,000, “Mimi Lok’s Last of Her Nameis a smorgasbord of powerful writing and angsty emotion wrapped into eight meditations on what it means to feel slightly out of place, either in your head or in your physical surroundings … it’s quite clear Lok is on to something about the human condition … her empathy for her characters—and discerning grasp of their strained or isolated circumstances—comes through on every page. There she meets other English visitors, including Mrs Pusey, Mrs Pusey's daughter Jennifer, and … Given the most recent Booker Prize winners announcement, I got to wondering, just how many of these past winning titles have I actually read? Colson Whitehead,The Nickel Boys (Doubleday). (Tor Books), “The setup is the start to a stunning story that impressively blends together Martine’s fantastic and immersive world, a combination political thriller, cyberpunk yarn, and epic space opera that together make up a gripping read … Martine threads a delicate needle…as the plot unfurls, showing off the complex facets where politics and identity mix … it’s an excellent, gripping novel with a brisk plot, outstanding characters, and plenty to think about long after it’s over.”, Finalists: Charles E. Gannon, Marque of Cain (Baen) Lydia Millet,A Children’s Bible (W. W. Norton) The reality of Black gay love in the time of slavery is explored in a heart-stopping new novel that’s already won praise from Mariah Carey and Oprah Winfrey. Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for fiction with his first novel “Shuggie Bain”, with judges saying his tale of love and alcoholism set in … James … Griffiths (, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), 'Many Haws, Cold Toes.' Presented in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, the winner receives a prize of £10,000. A leading source of entertainment listings since 1985. Ann Goldstein, The Lying Life of Adults (Europa) Prize money: £50,000, Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain Read more Read less Length: 355 pages Lila Savage, Say, Say, Say (Knopf) Barbara Bourland, Fake Like Me (Grand Central) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (Grove Press) Hamnet is, above all, a profound study of loss … At her best, O’Farrell is simply outstanding. The 2020 winner of the Giller Prize is Souvankham Thammavongsa's short story collection How To Pronounce Knife, which explores the disorientation of the immigrant experience in emotionally expansive ways. Whether you're looking to escape into a thrilling page-turner, stimulate those little grey cells with a cerebral work of non-fiction, or find solace in beautiful poetry and prose, these literary prize winners are sure to help us see us through these difficult times. All the major UK book awards 2020(17 Mar 2020)Shortlist announcements, judging panels, winners and prize money: everything you need to know about the UK's major book prizes. The winner receives a prize of £30,000. He’s lovely, Douglas Stuart, fierce and loving and lovely. The Lost Children Archive is simply stunning. Shuggie Bain is Douglas Stuart's first novel, and took him 10-12 years to write, while working in fashion. His novel Shuggie Bain … Now, 40 years later, Man Booker judges are righting that wrong. Hotel du Lac is a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner. This year's winner will be announced in January. The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is . The Jhalak Prize was established in 2017 to celebrate the works of British and British resident writers of colour from across the genres of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels and more. Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships (Harper) What is your favourite Booker Prize-winning novel? Juliana Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical (Amethyst Editions) Summary The Booker Prize Ceremony 2020, brought to you live from the Roundhouse, London by Front Row and BBC Arts on 19 November. The novel skewers pop-culture stereotypes of Asian Americans and contends, memorably, with assimilation … Arranged in acts and told in the second person in the form of a screenplay, Interior Chinatown is bold, even groundbreaking, in its form. The novel, which is set on a dairy farm in a small village, is at once spare and luminous, haunting without calling attention to the fact. Everything Inside is an answer to that question: This remarkable writer shows us how.”, Finalists: "I … Peter Rock, The Night Swimmers (Soho Press) Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day makes it seem effortless—but in focusing on the taxing nature of the creative process under duress, she also reminds the reader of how difficult ‘effortless’ can be. Within pages, she can inhabit the mind of an owl, of a great playwright, of a dying boy, of those watching him. Prize money: $50,000, “Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill … Leilani has a ruthless knack for the somatic, rendering flesh on paper as alluring and unidealized as it is right next to you … Strangely, Leilani’s heightened rendering of the tangle that can be one’s early 20s…is what actually lends the novel its acidic verisimilitude … The relationship between Edie and Rebecca is a living thing with its own heartbeat, and it is here that Leilani is at her most nimble, her writing sinewy and sharp … it is Edie’s hunger for recognition—more than her desire for self-improvement or the humiliation of heterosexuality or her attempts to wrestle her life into something worth the pain—that colors the novel.”, –Jazmine Hughes (The New York Times Book Review), Finalists: The 2020 winner of the International Booker Prize is Dutch poet and author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's novel The Discomfort of Evening, which took the Netherlands by … For the past 50 years, the Costa Book Awards have been honouring the best writers in the UK and Ireland across five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. Can We Bring Extinct Species Back? Aptly named after one of the fathers of the genre, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction honours the best historical novels published that year ('historical' meaning works whose plot takes place at least 60 years ago), and is open to writers in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth. María Gainza, tr. De’shawn Charles Winslow,In West Mills (Bloomsbury), “… awe-inspiring … Lerner has hit on something deep, and true, in the portrait of ‘debate’ in this book, as what it has long seemed to be—the knightly combat or martial arts of children of the professional-managerial class, where they can practice the linguistic violence they’ll use as adults against real targets in politics, the law, and administration … The beautiful recollections of childhood in The Topeka School allow for a Portrait of the Artist–type origin story in which Adam’s eventual triumph as a poet, and as the writer of this novel, occurs by the neutralization of the voices of debate and white rap with his mother’s feminism … The Darren plot seems a way to lend a convention of suspense, familiar from other contemporary novels, to a book that is better than most contemporary novels. To call this novel completely dystopian wouldn’t be entirely accurate, though: there’s a passing reference to states having established a basic income, for instance. How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman changed my life. Awards established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year. Established to honour works that uphold George Orwell's ambition 'to make political writing into an art', The Orwell Prizes recognise the best political writing and reporting published in the UK. Ben Lerner, The Topeka School (FSG) “Rabinyan’s book is a sort of Romeo and Juliet, a forbidden love affair between a Jewish girl from Tel Aviv and a Palestinian boy from Hebron. Perhaps its virtue is as a reminder of the persistence of exclusion in a progressive civilization—our own—which redeems some new subjects only to despise and scapegoat others.”, Finalists: . The winner of Best Fiction: Crime & Thriller is Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer, which takes a comic spin on the traditional crime novel. Save £5 on A Box Of Stories genre subscription or 10% on a mixed or fiction box. Whitehead becomes one of four writers who have won the prize twice, as he also won in 2017 for The Underground Railroad. He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster—only damage. Established in 1917, the coveted Pulitzer Prizes honours the very best in American arts and journalism. Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, Awarded to an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. Thrown into the mix are excerpts from The Stranger, itself a delicious homage to writers like M.R. The winner receives £25,000, with shortlisted writers each receiving £1,500. Jenny Offill, Weather (Knopf), Awarded to the author of the year’s best work of fiction by a living American citizen. Négar Djavadi, tr. Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain (Grove Press). The 2020 winner of the International Booker Prize is Dutch poet and author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's novel The Discomfort of Evening, which took the Netherlands by storm when it first appeared on the scene. Prize money: €100,000, “Burns’s agenda is not to unpack the dreary tribal squabbles that so characterised Troubles-era Northern Ireland; rather she is working in an altogether more interesting milieu, seeking answers to the big questions about identity, love, enlightenment and the meaning of life for a young woman on the verge of adulthood … in its intricate domestic study of a disparate family there are agreeable echoes of Chekov, Tolstoy and Turgenev … it is an impressive, wordy, often funny book and confirms Anna Burns as one of our rising literary star.”, Finalists: Owl Goingback, Coyote Rage John McMahon, The Good Detective (G.P. Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday), Chosen from books reviewed by Kirkus Reviews that earned the Kirkus Star. Including a powerful debut, a gothic read and a fast-paced YA, The author of Shuggie Bain will be joined by Andrew O'Hagan and Graeme Armstrong for the festival's second edition, Featuring Hilary Mantel's stunning conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, several Booker nominees and riveting Scottish fiction, Gift ideas for the best books filled with delicious recipes to try this winter. Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night (Tor) Édouard Louis, tr. Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (Tor). The 2020 winner of the Political Writing Book Prize is Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy, in which the author shares her personal account of state education. And none of the violence is exaggerated. Prize money: $10,000, Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown Despite the lack of razzmatazz, it’s important to remember that awards were still awarded, and many wonderful books were deservedly honored. Awarded by Swansea University, the Dylan Thomas Prize seeks to honour the best published literary work – encompassing poetry, drama, short stories and novels – by an author under the age of 39 in the English language from across the world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow (One World) The 2020 winner of the McIlvanney Prize is Pine by Francine Toon, an eerie, sinister debut about a decades-old mystery set in the Scottish Highlands. This article contains one or more affiliate links. Luster is lean and focused, yet dense with reference and detail, the lush prose heightening its tangible specificity. Established to complement the Booker Prize, the International Booker Prize was established in 2004 to honour a work that has been translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The latest to join this rank is 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain.According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, A24 and Scott Rudin Productions have got the rights to adapt the award-winning novel … The narration is disciplined and the sentences plain and sturdy, oars cutting into water. . If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Infidelity by Stacey May Fowles, our current Cityline Book Club pick, it’s that affairs are very rarely as sexy in reality as they might seem in fantasy. For all that she is image conscious and desirous of new experiences, her fragile sensibility is quietly revealed … Sea Monsters is a contemplative, meandering novel—there are no unexpected plot twists, no great climactic resolution. Honouring excellence in contemporary poetry published in the UK and Ireland, the Forward Prizes for Poetry is administered by the Forward Arts Foundation, which works to promote and expand the public's knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of poetry. Michele Hutchinson, The Discomfort of Evening Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive (Knopf) Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Redhook) James … Griffiths (The Vanishing Box, 2018, etc.) The new year is full of books we can't wait to read, including titles from Joan Didion, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cicely Tyson, Bill Gates and more. . But its unflattering portrait of India as a society racked by corruption and servitude has caused a storm in his homeland. Its starkness and irresolution recalls the historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s point that the opposite of forgetting is not merely remembrance. Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (W. W. Norton) Open to all genres and forms of literature written in English and published in the UK, the Rathbones Folio Prize seeks to honour 'works of literature in which the subjects being explored achieve their most perfect and thrilling expression'. Corey Sobel, The Redshirt (University Press of Kentucky) Tayari Jones, An American Marriage (Algonquin) Ben Lerner, The Topeka School (FSG), Recognizes an outstanding work of literary fiction by a United States citizen. It follows the life of Shuggie, an impoverished boy struggling to look after his single mother, Agnes, an alcoholic, even as he grapples with his own sexuality. James McBride, Deacon King Kong (Riverhead) One of the UK's oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize was established in 1919 and honours any work of fiction, biography or drama written in the English language and published that calendar year. Leilani also makes smart use of the well-placed long sentence, the catharsis that can arrive when something comes to an end.”, Finalists: Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade (Gallery/Saga Press) Ann Patchett, The Dutch House (Harper) Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body (Graywolf Press) Last year, in an unprecedented move, the Booker was awarded jointly to Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments. The Booker Prize-Winning Books, obviously possessing all the great and novel methods of storytelling. That it doesn’t read that way is a tribute to the energy with which the stories are told, and the vivid detail in which the world of the book is created … The novel’s greatest strength lies in its creation of three unforgettable female characters … the emotional devastation wrought by illness is keenly felt in these pages … an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism … a dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.”, –Salman Rushdie (The New York Times Book Review), Finalists: Griffiths, who is known for the Magic Men mysteries and the Ruth Galloway series, has written her first stand-alone novel with immensely pleasurable results.”, Finalists: ADDucation’s all-time Booker prize winners list includes all the Booker prize winning authors, their winning novel With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction recognises a work written by an American author published in the preceding calendar year, with preference given to novels about an American subject. Founded in 1992 due to long-held frustration towards all-male literary award shortlists (despite the ratio of books written by women to those written by men holding at roughly 60/40), the Women's Prize is today one of the most respected literary awards in the world, and an enduring champion for fiction written by women. Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes (Scribner) Prize money: $10,000, “The narrator’s substantial wit often comes paired with self-recriminations and worry, the novel’s humor and melancholy each making the other more potent … One of the book’s greatest strengths is its heady evocation of the senses—the pleasure and pain that comes with having a body … While some of Luster’s plot moves can come across as convenient or even obligatory, Leilani settles comfortably into any given scenario … the archetype Leilani has chosen suits her debut well—the protagonist who must go away in order to come back—if only because she takes full advantage of the form, using its bluntest markers as occasions to deepen an already candid, vulnerable character. Josh Malerman, Inspection (Del Rey) The 2020 winner will be announced in August 2021 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. 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