Shortlist

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Six “hugely compelling and vividly realised global stories” have been shortlisted for the 4thWrite prize.The prize, which is run by the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate, is a short story competition for unpublished writers of colour.This year’s shortlisted stories explore a mother-daughter relationship, a domestic child worker in Pakistan and a physics professor whose psyche splits in two.Kishani Widyaratna, editorial director at publisher 4th Estate, and a judge on this year’s prize, said the stories “are hugely…

Five debut collections are among the shortlist for this year’s TS Eliot prize for best new poetry collection, which saw a record number of submissions.Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Mark Pajak, James Conor Patterson, Denise Saul and Yomi Sode all make the list for the £25,000 prize.They are joined by Philip Gross, who won the prize in 2009, Fiona Benson, Jemma Borg, Anthony Joseph and Zaffar Kunial.Chair of judges Jean Sprackland said the shortlist consisted of books that “thrilled, surprised, and struck us to the…

Five of the six books on this year’s shortlist for the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction are by women. Caroline Elkins’ Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire; Sally Hayden’s My Fourth Time, We Drowned; Anna Keay’s The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown; Polly Morland’s A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story, and Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne take up all but one of the places.Quick GuideThe Baillie Gifford prize 2022 shortlistShowLegacy of Violence by…

Quick GuideGoldsmiths prize 2022 shortlistShowThank you for your feedback.The shortlist for the 10th Goldsmiths prize, described as “exhilarating” by the judges, features a novel written by a collaborative writing duo for the first time in the prize’s history.Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams has made the shortlist for the £10,000 prize, which “celebrates fiction at its most novel” and was set up with the New Statesman in 2013.Also on this year’s shortlist are Peaces, the seventh novel by Helen…

On 17 October, the winner will be announced for this year’s Booker prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for long-form fiction. Ahead of the announcement, you can watch video readings from each shortlisted title below. The excerpts are read by a variety of performers – from TV star David Harewood and actor and writer Prasanna Puwanarajah to musician Jarvis Cocker and actor and writer Sharon Horgan. The films have been directed by Kevin Thomas, and produced by Mermade, the digital sister company to Horgan and Clelia…

Legend has it that the 1976 Booker prize was decided by a coin toss when the exasperated judges were unable to agree on a winner. I’m not suggesting that this year’s chair of judges, art historian and former museum director Neil MacGregor, keep some loose change in his back pocket, but every book on the 2022 shortlist is a serious contender for the prize. Short of coin-tossing, arm-wrestling and plucking a name from a hat in a blind panic, I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winning book from this spectacular final six.In…

Books by David Whitehouse, Preti Taneja and Graeme Macrae Burnet are on the shortlist for this year’s Gordon Burn prize.The award is for the year’s “boldest and most innovative” books, and is open to fiction and nonfiction.Also making the shortlist of five – chosen by a judging panel chaired by writer Denise Mina – are Margo Jefferson and Lea Ypi. The shortlist includes memoir, creative nonfiction, true crime and fiction in works the prize described as “expansive in form and ambition”, and which “unflinchingly explore…

Six “bold and original new voices” have made the shortlist for the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize.The list, voted for by booksellers from Waterstones, includes Sequoia Nagamatsu’s “extraordinary” science fiction novel How High We Go in the Dark, Eloghosa Osunde’s “bold and beautiful mix of folklore and realism”, Vagabonds!, and Tara M Stringfellow’s celebration of Black womanhood, Memphis.Also on the shortlist are Bonnie Garmus’s bestselling Lessons in Chemistry, Tess Gunty’s “assured and truly memorable” The…

Hugh Grant is “on the shortlist” of actors to portray Prince Andrew in Scoop, a new film about the royal’s car-crash BBC interview.The film, written by Your Honor screenwriter Peter Moffat, will tell the story of how the BBC secured the interview with the duke about his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.According to Deadline, Grant is “one of the unconfirmed names in the frame” to portray Prince Andrew. In the bombshell interview, conducted by Emily Maitlis, the duke denied he had slept with Virginia…