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Caleb Azumah Nelson's OPEN WATER is longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize
We are delighted that Caleb Azumah Nelson has been longlisted for the 2021 Gordon
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
We are delighted to announce that Caleb Azumah Nelson has been selected as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree for his debut novel OPEN WATER. This hugely prestigious award was set up to recognize young, debut fiction writers whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.
Caleb Azumah Nelson to deliver keynote speech at the National Creative Writing Industry Day 2021
Caleb Azumah Nelson will deliver a keynote speech to aspiring writers as the National Creative Writing Industry Day returns to its usual venue in Manchester on 5 November.
STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel is reissued for The Picador Collection
STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel has been unveiled as one of 13 books being reissued as part of a new paperback series, The Picador Collection, launching in February 2022.
Joelle Taylor and Michael Symmons Roberts are shortlisted for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize
Congratulations to Joelle Taylor and Michael Symmons Roberts on being shortlisted for the 2021 T. S. Eliot prize for their poetry collections C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press) and Ransom (Cape Poetry) respectively. The T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings will take place on Sunday 9th January 2022 in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, hosted by Ian McMillan. Tickets for the readings in-person in the Royal Festival or livestreamed online are available from www.southbankcentre.co.uk.
OPEN WATER is shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2021
We are absolutely thrilled that Caleb Azumah Nelson's debut novel OPEN WATER has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021!
Caleb Azumah Nelson's OPEN WATER wins the 2021 Costa First Novel Award
Launched in 1971, the Costa Book Awards is one of the UK's most prestigious and popular book prizes and celebrates the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the UK and Ireland.
TRUST by Hernan Diaz is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
"There is a dazzling intelligence behind this novel, which challenges us to rethink everything we know both about the institutions on which nations are built and the narratives by which stories are told. Sly, sophisticated, insistently questioning, Diaz writes with assurance, determined to rob us of every certainty." — The 2022 judges on TRUST
Sheila Heti's PURE COLOUR is shortlisted for the 2023 Folio Prize
Congratulations to Sheila Heti on being shortlisted for the 2023 Folio Prize in the Fiction category for her new novel, Pure Colour (Harvill Secker, 2022).