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Lescure’s novel, River East, River West, reverses what readers might expect of an immigrant narrative.Set during China's economic boom in the latter half of the 20th century, the book examines ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
— Women's Prize (@WomensPrize) June 15, 2022 “A celebration of the power of books and reading, it tackles big issues of life and death, and is a complete joy to read.”
The Booker Prize Shortlist was announced at Somerset House on Monday (16 September), with religion, climate change, and race among the key themes tackled by the selected titles.. Judges had the ...
The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel Orbital, was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London. [1] [2]
In May 2014, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction launched the #ThisBook campaign to find out which books, written by women, have had the biggest impact on readers. [21] Nineteen "inspirational women" were chosen to launch the campaign and then thousands of people from the "general public" submitted their ideas via Twitter . [ 22 ]
The winner of both prizes will be announced on June 13.
The first longlist for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, of 16 titles, was announced on 15 February 2024. [8] The Guardian noted that the subject matter of the longlisted books included "Capitalism, artificial intelligence, Renaissance history and motherhood". [9] The shortlist was announced on 27 March 2024 and the winner on 13 June 2024. [7]