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Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing; British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding; CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction; Duff Cooper Prize; Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit; James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for biography
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare around the world. [10] Literary critics have noted that it is a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or to be nominated for the "longlist". [1]
Pages in category "British literary awards" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. ... BBC National Short Story Award; Benson Medal; Best ...
The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for the best English-language novel of the year published in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. [1] The 2023 winner was Paul Lynch's Prophet Song. The 2023 longlist was announced on 1 August. [2]
Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author first published in the UK during the two preceding years. Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK.
The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, ran from 1990 to 2009 and were founded by the editor of Publishing News. [1] The awards were then acquired by Agile Marketing, which renamed them the National Book Awards and called them the Galaxy National Book Awards (2010–2011) and later the Specsavers National Book Awards (2012–2014) after their headline sponsors. [2]
In 2005, judges named Andrea Levy's Small Island as the "Orange of Oranges", the best novel of the preceding decade. [18] The BBC suggests that the prize forms part of the "trinity" of UK literary prizes, along with the Booker Prize and the Costa Book Awards; the sales of works by the nominees of these awards are significantly boosted. [19]