The Writers' Prize

[Ludus]

I agree. Current panorama por Mexican literature is just incredibly poor. Just to think Valeria Luiselli, Antonio Ortuño, Elmer Mendoza, Enrique Serna or Carlos Velázquez represent our literature makes me wanna throw up.

Maybe out of topic, but what's your thoughts on Serna? Haven't read him yet, but have heard good comments about his books.

 

[Daniel del Real]

Maybe out of topic, but what's your thoughts on Serna? Haven't read him yet, but have heard good comments about his books.

Well, I haven't read him, but all themes on his books are so superficial and trivial it doesn't make me want to. Besides, there are a lot of writers to read out there to be wasting time with someone who used to write scripts for telenovelas!

 

[Bartleby]

They’ve announced this year’s (very) longlist:


Amina Cain - Indelicacy (Daunt Books)

C Pam Zhang - How Much of These Hills Is Gold(Virago)

Caleb Femi - Poor (Penguin)

Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House(Serpent's Tail)

Claudia Rankine - Just Us (Allen Lane)

Doireann Ní Ghríofa - A Ghost In the Throat(Tramp Press)

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain (Picador)

Elaine Feeney - As You Were (Harvill Secker)

Inua Ellams - The Actual (Penned in the Margins)

James Rebanks - English Pastoral (Allen Lane)

Katharina Volckmer - The Appointment(Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Mark Gevisser - The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World of Queer Frontiers (Profile Books)

Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life (Bodley Head)

Monique Roffey - The Mermaid of Black Conch(Peepal Tree)

Nii Ayikwei Parkes - The Geez (Peepal Tree)

Patrick Freyne - OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea(Penguin)

Rachel Long - My Darling from the Lions (Picador)

Rebecca Tamás - Strangers (Makina Books)

Sara Baume - Handiwork (Tramp Press)

Will Harris - RENDANG (Granta)


the shortlist will be revealed in February; the winner in March.

 

[Bartleby]

And now the shortlist:

Amina Cain - Indelicacy (Daunt Books)
Caleb Femi - Poor (Penguin)
Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House(Serpent's Tail)
Doireann Ní Ghríofa - A Ghost In the Throat(Tramp Press)
Elaine Feeney - As You Were (Harvill Secker)
Monique Roffey - The Mermaid of Black Conch(Peepal Tree)
Rachel Long - My Darling from the Lions (Picador)
Sara Baume - Handiwork (Tramp Press)


By the descriptions and some glimpses at reviews the only one I’d like to actually read so far would be Handiwork.

has anyone heard or even read any of these?

 

[Bartleby]

And 2021’s winner is

Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House

 

[Dante]

Guys, have you heard about this story? Quite crazy (I dare say, hilarious).

 

[Stevie B]

Guys, have you heard about this story? Quite crazy (I dare say, hilarious).

For the record, I just want to say it's pure coincidence that I made a £30,000 deposit in my savings account in March of 2020. ?

 

[Dante]

"The Folio Academy foundation was targeted by sophisticated cyber criminals"

So sophisticated they've asked for a PayPal transaction like any random scammer in my junk mail.

 

[Liam]

A truer statement would be "The Folio Academy has hired incompetents who can't tell the difference between P. Diddy and a new kitty."

 

[beelzebubble]

or Puff Daddy and a pink caddy
or Sean Combs and some old tomes

 

[Bartleby]

The 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist:

Assembly by Natasha Brown (Hamish Hamilton)

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe)

Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare (4th Estate)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber)

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (Granta)

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)

The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking)


The other longlisted titles:

Checkout 19 by Claire Louise Bennett (Cape)

Everybody by Olivia Laing (Picador)

Sea State by Tabitha Lasley (4th Estate)

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (4th Estate)

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski (Quercus)

Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins)

The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (Allen Lane)

Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta)

A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood (Faber)

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber)

Palmares by Gayl Jones (Virago)


The winner will be announced on 23rd March.

Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín join ‘rich and large’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges

www.theguardian.com

 

[Johnny]

The 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist:

Assembly by Natasha Brown (Hamish Hamilton)

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe)

Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare (4th Estate)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber)

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (Granta)

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)

The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking)


The other longlisted titles:

Checkout 19 by Claire Louise Bennett (Cape)

Everybody by Olivia Laing (Picador)

Sea State by Tabitha Lasley (4th Estate)

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (4th Estate)

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski (Quercus)

Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins)

The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (Allen Lane)

Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta)

A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood (Faber)

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber)

Palmares by Gayl Jones (Virago)


The winner will be announced on 23rd March.

Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín join ‘rich and large’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges

www.theguardian.com

Welcome back! This is quite an intriguing list and it will be very interesting to see who wins. Galgut and Toibin are well known, the 2 most interesting names to me were:
Philip Hoare, I have not read this book yet but did read Spike Island a number of years ago, I would highly recommend it, very talented writer. WG Sebald thought very highly of that book.
Claire Keegan is IMO by far and away the best Irish writer in the post William Trevor / John MacGahern era and reminiscent of both those writers. Small Things Like These is an outstanding short novel, again would highly recommend it. One of the best books I read last year, final 20 pages are so were just incredibly tense and well written.
Galgut presumably is the favourite but I would love to see Claire Keegan win and get the further recognition she deserves.

 

[Bartleby]

The 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist:

Assembly by Natasha Brown (Hamish Hamilton)

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe)

Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare (4th Estate)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber)

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (Granta)

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)

The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking)


The other longlisted titles:

Checkout 19 by Claire Louise Bennett (Cape)

Everybody by Olivia Laing (Picador)

Sea State by Tabitha Lasley (4th Estate)

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (4th Estate)

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski (Quercus)

Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins)

The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (Allen Lane)

Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta)

A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood (Faber)

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber)

Palmares by Gayl Jones (Virago)


The winner will be announced on 23rd March.

Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín join ‘rich and large’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges

www.theguardian.com

The winner of this year's prize is:

The Magician by Colm Toíbín

Irish novelist Colm Tóibín wins Rathbones Folio prize for The Magician

Fictionalised biography of writer Thomas Mann beats Booker prize-winner Damon Galgut to £30,000 award

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bartleby]

Just like with the Dublin Literary Award, I'd completely forgotten about this prize. This year on they've decided to split it into three categories (while previously all genres competed together for one prize) : non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, with one one the three being the Book of the Year.

The winners of the 2023 edition, then, are:

for both non-fiction and overall winner: Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

for fiction: Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser

for poetry: Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize

The writer and critic’s memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, was described as ‘astounding and rhapsodic’ by judges

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bartleby]

Formerly known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, now The Writers' Prize announced its 2024 shortlist, divided into 3 categories:

Fiction:

• Anne Enright – The Wren, The Wren (Jonathan Cape)
• Paul Murray – The Bee Sting (Hamish Hamilton)
• Zadie Smith – The Fraud (Hamish Hamilton)

Non-fiction

• Laura Cumming – Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death (Chatto & Windus)
• Naomi Klein – Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Penguin Press)
• Mark O’Connell – A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder (Granta)

Poetry

• Jason Allen-Paisant – Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press)
• Liz Berry – The Home Child (Chatto & Windus)
• Mary Jean Chan – Bright Fear (Faber)

The winners from each category, as well as the overall winner, will be announced on 13th March.

Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize

Other authors in contention for the award, previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize, include Naomi Klein and Observer art critic Laura Cumming

www.theguardian.com

 

[Verkhovensky]

Formerly known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, now The Writers' Prize announced its 2024 shortlist, divided into 3 categories:

Why did they change their name? Who was that Rathbones Folio guy anyway?

 

[Bartleby]

Why did they change their name? Who was that Rathbones Folio guy anyway?

The Guardian article above explains that last year the Rathbones company quit providing funds for the prize, administered by the Folio Academy (a large group of writers and critics), and now the money is gathered by a variety of people/institutions.

 

[Verkhovensky]

The Guardian article above explains that last year the Rathbones company quit providing funds for the prize, administered by the Folio Academy (a large group of writers and critics), and now the money is gathered by a variety of people/institutions.

Thanks, but I was joking.
You got to admit that Rathbones Folio sounds like a name of some Victorian-era British person.
Strange how they don't just go with Folio Prize.

 

[Bartleby]

Formerly known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, now The Writers' Prize announced its 2024 shortlist, divided into 3 categories:

Fiction:

• Anne Enright – The Wren, The Wren (Jonathan Cape)
• Paul Murray – The Bee Sting (Hamish Hamilton)
• Zadie Smith – The Fraud (Hamish Hamilton)

Non-fiction

• Laura Cumming – Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death (Chatto & Windus)
• Naomi Klein – Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Penguin Press)
• Mark O’Connell – A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder (Granta)

Poetry

• Jason Allen-Paisant – Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press)
• Liz Berry – The Home Child (Chatto & Windus)
• Mary Jean Chan – Bright Fear (Faber)

The winners from each category, as well as the overall winner, will be announced on 13th March.

Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize

Other authors in contention for the award, previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize, include Naomi Klein and Observer art critic Laura Cumming

www.theguardian.com

Liz Berry won the poetry prize and the overall award for her novel in verse The Home Child.

Additionally, Anne Enright received the fiction prize for The Wren, the Wren, with Laura Cumming winning the nonfiction prize for Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death.

Poet Liz Berry’s The Home Child wins Writers’ prize book of the year

Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, The Wren and Observer art critic Laura Cumming wins non-fiction with Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death

www.theguardian.com