Arundhati Roy and Toomaj Salehi announced as joint winners of the Vaclav Havel Center’s 2024 ‘Disturbing the Peace’ Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk Article 1430 words, published Aug 15 2024 5 votes
Why ban books when you can ban book awards?: Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards Article 1126 words, published Mar 19 2024 30 votes
Hugo voting data from Chengdu WorldCon raises suspicions of vote tampering and incorrect eligibility rulings science fiction Article 3702 words 31 votes
Book Riot author calculates the best science fiction and fantasy of 2022 and 2023 science fiction Article 940 words 5 votes
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announce the winners of the 55th annual Nebula Awards science fiction Article 445 words 11 votes
Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden – Turkey joined Albania and Kosovo in boycotting Tuesday's Nobel prize ceremony literature Article 725 words 5 votes
Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday literature Article 576 words 6 votes
John W. Campbell Award is renamed after winner criticizes him science fiction Article 722 words 12 votes
Novelists have condemned the Staunch prize – for thrillers without violence against women – as a ‘gagging order’, after organisers said the genre could bias jurors fiction Article 963 words 7 votes
James Kelman on the Booker, class and literary elitism Article 1926 words, published Mar 13 2019 4 votes
Behrouz Boochani: Detained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize Article 1091 words 4 votes
Canadian literary prize suspended after finalists object to Amazon sponsorship literature Article 417 words 10 votes
Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult books fiction Article 3474 words, published Nov 10 2018 7 votes
The Hugo Awards just made history, and defied alt-right extremists in the process science fiction Article 1656 words, published Aug 21 2018 31 votes
Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award with one-sentence novel Article 899 words 8 votes