The Costa Book Awards

The latest winner of the Costa first novel prize is Emma Healy for Elizabeth is Missing. Ali Smith also won in the best novel category for How to be Both; more details are here.

Folio Prize Longlist

This years Folio Prize longlist has been announced. Over 80 titles, including some of the best reviewed American, Canadian, British and Australian novels of the year, are included; you can see the full list here.

The IMPAC Nominees

The longlist for this year's IMPAC Dublin Award is impressive; over 130 books from different nations are included. At least two novels from Bay Area authors are under consideration; And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini and The Circle by Dave Eggers. You can see all the nominees here.

France's Literary Awards

A number of important literary prizes have been announced in France this month. The Prix Goncourt for 2014 has been won by Lydie Salvayre for her novel Pas Pleurer; a number of her previous books in both English and French are listed in our catalog. A rival prize, the Renaudot, has been won by another widely translated author, David Foenkinos, best known here for Delicacy, which was also made into a film starring Audrey Tautou.

The Man Booker Prize for 2014

This year's Man Booker Prize has gone to Australian Richard Flanagan for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. More information is at the New York Times.

Patrick Modiano

The French author Patrick Modiano has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. There is a brief appreciation in the Guardian listing five key works, while the New Statesman has a longer analysis of his writings ; you can also see titles in English in our catalog. In addition to novels, Modiano contributed to the screenplays of two films, Lacombe Lucien and Bon Voyage.

The National Book Award YA Longlist

The National Book Award longlist for teen fiction has been announced. Finalists include books by Jacqueline Woodson, Kate Milford, and Steve Sheinkin.as well as Laurie Halse Anderson  The full list is at the Los Angeles Times website.

The Man Booker Shortlist

The short list for this year's Man Booker Prize has been announced. Two American novels are included; To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. You can read more about the finalists at the New York Times ArtsBeat blog.

The Hugo Award

This year's Hugo Award for science fiction has been awarded to Ann Leckie.  Her novel Ancillary Justice has also won a Nebula; finalists included Parasite by Mira Grant and Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross.You can see the full list here.

PEN Award Winners

The latest winners of the PEN literary awards have just been announced; recipients include James Wolcott, Frank Bidart, Linda Leavell and Carl Hart. The award for debut fiction won't be announced until September, but you can view the list of finalists.

The Man Booker Long List

The long list for the Man Booker prize has been announced; this is the first year that American authors have been included.  The Guardian has a gallery featuring nominees, which to the surprise of many does not include Donna Tart's The Goldfinch.