Prizes

Fiction, Opinion

Is ‘Regional Writing’ Pejorative?+

A year ago I wrote a piece for The Thought Fox in praise of the short story, as Faber published...

The grand literary biography, alongside the Booker winner, used to be the jewel on an editor's list. But those days...

The winner of this year's Dylan Thomas Prize is Lucy Caldwell with The Meeting Point, her second novel. The award...

'The contemporary short story is in rude health and its profile should be celebrated.' Faber's Lee Brackstone, at last weekend's...

Heartfelt congratulations to Jo Shapcott from all at Faber on her success at the Costa awards. Every now and then,...

John King, Lecturer at the University of Warwick, translator, friend and colleague of Mario Vargas Llosa reflects on the Nobel...

Eoin McNamee was last night awarded the 2010 IMISON Award for his haunting play The Road Wife (BBC Radio Northern...

It’s no surprise that Peter Carey’s debut novel Bliss (one of last year’s Faber Firsts books) should offer, almost...

It’s very rare for a science book to win the Costa (or Whitbread as it used to be) Biography Award,...