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Travis Alabanza’s “vulnerable and urgent” memoir exploring genderqueer identities has won the 2023 Jhalak prize, while a coming-of-age novel by Danielle Jawando has taken the Jhalak children’s and young adult award.Alabanza’s None of the Above and Jawando’s When Our Worlds Collided were announced as winners at a ceremony in London on Thursday. The prizes recognise the best writing by British or British-resident writers of colour.The pair each win £1,000 and a specially created work of art as part of the ongoing Jhalak art…

The Philippines 40th National Book Awards ceremony took place last weekend, co-presented by the Philippines National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle. The Graphic Novel and Comics English and Filipino category winners were Jay Ignacio and Alex Niño’s Alandal and RH Quilantang’s Ang Mga Alitaptap ng Pulang Buhangin  (both published by Komiket, Inc.).  Award winners were declared around May 1, with the formal award ceremony taking place May 13 where winners could accept their awards and give their…

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Associated Press, the New York Times and authors Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz.The Associated Press won two Pulitzer prizes for journalism on Monday, in public service and breaking news photography, for coverage of the Ukraine war that included images of Russia’s siege of Mariupol.The New York Times was also honored with an international reporting award for its coverage of Russian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Additional Pulitzers were given for work surrounding the US…

An enigmatic story of art and life in Communist Bucharest, a debut novel set in a red-light district in Pakistan, a searing YA story set in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia — as well as reexaminations of J. Edgar Hoover, the Jim Crow era and more — are among the winners of the 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, awarded Friday evening during a ceremony at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium.Among the winners were widely known historians and journalists, including Biography winner Beverly Gage, for…

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Booker prize-shortlisted author Percival Everett and Iñupiaq-Inuit poet dg nanouk okpik are among the recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes.The prizes are awarded to eight writers each year for literary achievement across four categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Each recipient receives $175,000 (£140,000); this is up $10,000 from last year.Joining Everett and okpik are playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones, who at 25 is the youngest ever winner in the awards. Also on the list are novelist Ling Ma,…

On Tuesday, two Russian fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone flying high above the Black Sea. The jets brought down the drone in international waters, which has kicked off a race between Washington, D.C., and Moscow to recover the drone—a contest that could potentially extend to the depths of the Black Sea. The MQ-9, a multipurpose workhorse for the U.S. military, was likely reporting on Russian maritime activities related to the war in Ukraine when it encountered the Russian twin-engine Su-27…

Mihoyo has announced its World Quest: Music Showdown event, which offers cash prizes to Genshin Impact fans who can cover music from the game. Open to Genshin Impact fans in North America and Europe, players will be able to submit their covers of Genshin Impact tracks until March 19. As detailed on Mihoyo’s announcement page, participants will need to film themselves “playing songs from Genshin Impact using any instrument” and post it on Twitter, Tiktok or Facebook with the hashtags #AstraCarnival, #GenshinImpact and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe 95th Academy Awards took place on Sunday (12 March), with<em> Everything Everywhere All At Once</em> emerging as the evening’s big winner. The film took home a total of seven prizes, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.Colin Farrell, Michelle Yeoh, and Jessica Chastain were among the stars in attendance at the ceremony. which was held at the Los…

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