Prizes

• Kay Heikkinen wins 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize

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  Tuesday, 12th January 2021

  £3,000 for a translation from the Arabic
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• Heather Clark, Hadley Freeman among Slightly Foxed prize shortlist

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  Tuesday, 12th January 2021

  Sudhur Hazareesingh, Shelley Klein, Jonathan Lichtenstein also in running for Best First Biography prize
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• Blackwell’s reveals 2020 Book of the Year

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  Friday, 8th January 2021

  A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll crowned as the Blackwell’s Book of the Year for 2020; title already named Children's Book of the Year
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• Monique Roffey, Natasha Farrant among Costa category winners

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  Tuesday, 5th January 2021

  Two titles from Faber, one each from Peepal Tree, Sphere and Carcanet
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• Eliot prize postponed to 24 January

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  Monday, 4th January 2021

  Readings from the shortlisted poetry titles may be pre-recorded and streamed
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• UK Selfies Book Awards extended to British authors based in Europe

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  Friday, 1st January 2021

  Expat British authors included for the first time; cut off for submissions now midnight on 8 January
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• 2021 Russian Book Prize launched

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  Wednesday, 23rd December 2020

  Pushkin House unveils judges for £10,000 prize for the best non-fiction book about Russia accessible to the general reader
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• WPF podcast wraps up with Kim Cattrall

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  Wednesday, 23rd December 2020

  Sex and the City star reveals her five favourite books in Womens Prize for Fiction podcast season finale
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• Dagger in the Library 2021 nominations open

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  Monday, 21st December 2020

  Librarians choose favourite crime writer
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• Selfies teams up with Really Useful Co

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  Monday, 21st December 2020

  Free mentoring for a shortlisted author
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