Category: Awards
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The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Rickey Fayne, Justin Haynes, and Alejandro Heredia are on the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2025 shortlist, announced on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York, USA, since 2006. It recognizes the year’s best…
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T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Nick Makoha, Catherine-Esther Cowie, and Isabelle Baafi are on the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 shortlist, announced on Monday, October 5, 2025. The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. Founded to celebrate the UK Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and…
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TY Buratai Literary Initiative Young Adult Literature Prize 2025 finalists announced
The regional winners of the TY Buratai Literary Initiative Young Adult Literature Prize 2025 were announced in Abuja on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. The TY Buratai Literary Initiative Young Adult Literature Prize is an annual literary competition that recognizes and celebrates outstanding young adult writers in Nigeria, promoting creative writing, encouraging literary excellence, and providing…
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists were announced in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday, October 5, 2025. The Sunday Times Literary Awards are awarded annually in fiction (since 1989) and nonfiction (since 2001). Organised by South African newspaper The Sunday Times, it has been won in recent times by Jacob Dlamini and Damon Galgut (2015), Pumla Dineo…
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Ana Paula Tavares is Prêmio Camões 2025 winner
Ana Paula Tavares was announced the winner of the Prêmio Camões 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday, October 8, 2025. The Camões Prize, named after Luís de Camões, the Portuguese language’s greatest poet, is the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language. It is awarded annually by the Portuguese Direção-Geral do Livro, dos…
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Prix Goncourt 2025 Deuxieme Selection Announced
Nathacha Appanah and Yanick Lahens are on the Prix Goncourt 2025 Deuxième Selection announced in Paris, France, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. While it only has a token prize of around…
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Oyin Olugbile wins NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025
Oyin Olugbile’s novel Sanya is the winner of the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025. The announcement was made in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 10, 2025. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth US$100,000, has celebrated Nigerian authors in the four genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s literature since 2004. Sponsored annually by oil…
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Stella Gaitano wins PEN English Pinter Prize for Writer of Courage 2025.
Leila Aboulela selected Stella Gaitano as the PEN English Pinter Prize for Writer of Courage 2025 in London, UK, on Saturday, October 10, 2025. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland, or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize-winning speech, casts an…
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Hubaidat Oyinkansola Ishola Wins Quramo Writers’ Prize 2025
Hubaidat Oyinkansola Ishola was declared the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2025 winner at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 4, 2025. The Quramo Writers’ Prize is awarded annually to an unpublished fiction manuscript by an unpublished author. Nigeria-based Quramo Publishers founded it to encourage and stimulate a new community of talented writers and to…
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Marlene L. Daut is Cundill History Prize 2025 finalist
Marlene L. Daut is one of the three Cundill History Prize 2025 finalists announced in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in English, including translations. Founded by Peter Cundill and administered by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, it encourages informed public debate through…
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University of Johannesburg Prize 2025 winners announced
Barbara Boswell, Siphokazi Jonas, and Shubnum Khan were announced as the University of Johannesburg Prize 2025 winners on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English, also known as the UJ Prize, was instituted in 2006. It comprises a main prize and a debut prize, given annually for…
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NoViolet Bulawayo is Best of the Caine Prize winner
NoViolet Bulawayo was revealed to be the Best of the Caine Prize winner in London, UK, on Saturday, September 27, 2025. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award that recognizes excellence in African storytelling. Presented for the best short story published in English by an African writer, it is named after…
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Otoniya J. Okot Bitek on Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2025 shortlist
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is on the Canada’s Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2025 shortlist, announced on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes the best novel or short story collection by a Canadian author in the previous year. It is named in honour of the Writers’ Trust co-founders…
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Canada’s Giller Prize 2025 longlist announced
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, André Alexis, and Ian Williams are on the Giller Prize 2025 longlist announced on Monday, September 15, 2025. The Giller Prize, founded by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel, graphic novel, or short story collection published in English. The award is named…
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Nathacha Appanah, Natasha Brown on Prix Femina 2025 Premier Selection
Nathacha Appanah and Natasha Brown are on the Prix Femina 2025 Premier Selection announced in Paris, France, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina) in 1904. It is decided each year by an exclusively female…