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Some pieces of information from their site:
The Rathbones Folio Prize is open to all works of literature written in English and published in the UK. All genres and all forms of literature are eligible, except work written primarily for children.
The Prize will be awarded in May for books published in the previous calendar year.
The character and qualities of the prize are shaped by The Folio Academy, an international group of people, primarily writers and critics, who are immersed in the world of books. The Academy plays a decisive role in selecting titles to be considered for the Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist, and each year the judges will be drawn from its number.
Each year, three or five members of the Academy will be invited to judge the Prize
The sole criterion for judgment will be excellence: to identify works of literature in which the subjects being explored achieve their most perfect and thrilling expression.
The winner will be announced at the annual Rathbones Folio Prize ceremony and presented with a cheque for £30,000.
Past shortlisted books and winners:
2014
2015
2016 - No prize
2017
2018
The members of their academy include: Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Pat Barker, Kevin Barry, Sebastian Barry, Elif Batuman, AS Byatt, Peter Carey, Eleanor Catton, Michael Chabon, J. M. Coetzee, Michael Cunningham, Geoff Dyer among many others.
(I thought we had a page for this prize already!)
The Rathbones Folio Prize is open to all works of literature written in English and published in the UK. All genres and all forms of literature are eligible, except work written primarily for children.
The Prize will be awarded in May for books published in the previous calendar year.
The character and qualities of the prize are shaped by The Folio Academy, an international group of people, primarily writers and critics, who are immersed in the world of books. The Academy plays a decisive role in selecting titles to be considered for the Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist, and each year the judges will be drawn from its number.
Each year, three or five members of the Academy will be invited to judge the Prize
The sole criterion for judgment will be excellence: to identify works of literature in which the subjects being explored achieve their most perfect and thrilling expression.
The winner will be announced at the annual Rathbones Folio Prize ceremony and presented with a cheque for £30,000.
Past shortlisted books and winners:
2014
- Anne Carson, Red Doc
- Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity
- Amity Gaige, Schroder
- Jane Gardam, Last Friends
- Kent Haruf, Benediction
- Rachel Kushner, The Flame Throwers
- Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
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George Saunders, Tenth of December
2015
- Rachel Cusk, Outline
- Ben Lerner, 10:04
- Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Dust
-
Akhil Sharma, Family Life
- Ali Smith, How to Be Both
- Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows
- Colm Tóibín, Nora Webster
2016 - No prize
2017
- Laura Cumming, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez
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Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
- China Miéville, This Census-Taker
- CE Morgan, The Sport of Kings
- Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
- Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
- Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
2018
- Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible
- Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends
- Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
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Richard Lloyd Parry, Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Xiaolu Guo, Once Upon A Time In The East: A Story of Growing Up
- Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13
- Richard Beard, The Day That Went Missing
- Hari Kunzru, White Tears
The members of their academy include: Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Pat Barker, Kevin Barry, Sebastian Barry, Elif Batuman, AS Byatt, Peter Carey, Eleanor Catton, Michael Chabon, J. M. Coetzee, Michael Cunningham, Geoff Dyer among many others.
(I thought we had a page for this prize already!)
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