Prizes

• PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 shortlist unveiled

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  Friday, 15th October 2021

  Seven titles shortlisted for prize 'celebrating the best non-fiction on any historical subject'
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• 2021 TS Eliot Prize shortlist unveiled

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  Friday, 15th October 2021

  Shortlist celebrates 'ten books that sound clear and compelling voices of the moment'
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• Hanif Abdurraqib wins Gordon Burn Prize 2021

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  Friday, 15th October 2021

  Essay collection A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance 'illuminates the artistic experience of Black culture in America'
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• Shortlist unveiled for Avon/Mushens writing competition

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  Thursday, 14th October 2021

  Five titles in the running for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize; two-book HarperCollins deal for the winner
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• Booker Prize seeks global audience

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  Thursday, 14th October 2021

  'Hotly anticipated' live BBC broadcast of the prize-giving on 3 November 'will feature high-profile guests and reach millions globally;' unlike last year, all shortlisted...
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• New Welsh Writing Awards 2022 opens for entries

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  Thursday, 14th October 2021

  Works of 5,000-30,000 words in the Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting category
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• Scribble title wins takes top illustration award

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  Wednesday, 13th October 2021

  I Am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun has won the Professional Children’s Publishing category at the World Illustration Awards 2021
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• Michael Rosen wins CLiPPA for On the Move

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  Tuesday, 12th October 2021

  The popular poet explores his own past in his collection about migration
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• Kakwenza Rukirabashaija named International Writer of Courage

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  Tuesday, 12th October 2021

  Novelist was subjected to torture by the Ugandan government while detained last year
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• Trailblazing Hannah Chukwu wins Black British Business Award

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  Monday, 11th October 2021

  Chukwu, assistant editor at Hamish Hamilton and an LBF/BookBrunch 2021 Trailblazer, named BBBA's Arts & Media Rising Star winner
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