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The shortlist for the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award includes a diverse range of novels and features some of Australia’s most established literary names alongside new and emerging authors. Alex Miller, Brian Castro, Peter Temple and Sonya Hartnett are all familiar names on the Miles Franklin lists. Miller has twice won the nation’s most prestigious [...]

Hilary Mantel (pictured) has been named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel Wolf Hall, published by Fourth Estate. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel was picked from a shortlist of six titles. Authors A.S. Byatt, J.M. Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters were all shortlisted for this [...]

A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Hilary Mantel, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters are the shortlisted authors for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The shortlist was announced by Chair of judges James Naughtie at a press conference held at the Man Group plc’s London headquarters on 8 September. The six books, [...]

The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. A total of 132 books, 11 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ longlist of 13 books. Chaired by broadcaster and [...]

American author Marilynne Robinson has won the fourteenth Orange Prize for Fiction with her third novel ‘Home’ (Virago). British debut author Francesca Kay has won the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers with her novel ‘An Equal Stillness’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). WATCH THE VIDEO The winners of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction and the [...]

Alice Munro (pictured) has won the third Man Booker International Prize. Not to be confused with the annual Man Booker Prize, the Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in [...]