Awards news
The Bookseller’s British Book Awards (Nibbies) will be given in 12 categories on 13 May in London in a ceremony to be streamed online. The shortlist for Book of the Year is: Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker; Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros; So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan; Tackle!, Jilly Cooper; The Ghost Ship, Kate Mosse; Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang. The other categories are: Page Turner, Crime & Thriller, Debut Fiction, Non-Fiction: Narrative, Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated; Discover; Children’s Non-Fiction; Children’s Fiction; Audiobook: Non-Fiction; Audiobook: Fiction.
Website: www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-bookawards?tab=book-of-the-year-shortlists
The UK Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour eight-title shortlist is: The Unbound Atlas, Zita Abila; Blood on Shadowed Blades, Nelita Aromona; The Suit Sellers of Kowloon, Ese Erheriene; Ek Haseena Thi, Isha Karki; The Yawn of the Pond, Inigo Laguda; Walk in Fire, Ruairidh MacLean; Tribe of the Snow Leopards, Farah Maria Rahman; Let None Through, M.A. Seneviratne.
The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and the remaining six, £850 each. The award is funded by author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Adjoa Andoh.
The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 shortlist is: A Spell of Good Things, Ayòbámi Adébáyò; Small Worlds, Caleb Azumah Nelson; The Glutton, A.K. B˙ lakemore; Bri˙ght Fear, Mary Jean Chan; Local Fires, Joshua Jones; Biography of X, Catherine Lacey.
The Dylan Thomas Prize was launched in 2006 and is given annually to the ‘best published or produced literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under’. The Prize is worth £20,000, and the winner will be announced on 16 May.
Waterstones have announced their Children’s Book Prizes for 2024, the 20th year of the Prizes. Greenwild by Pari Thomson was chosen as both Best Book for Younger Readers and Overall Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024. Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis was Best Book for Older Readers, and The Search for the Giant Artic Jellyfish, written and illustrated by Chloe Savage was Best Illustrated Book.
Dublin City Council’s 2024 Dublin Literary Award for excellence in world literature shortlist is: Old God’s Time, Sebastian Barry;
Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu (translated by Sean Cotter); Haven, Emma Donoghue; If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffery; The Sleeping Car Porter, Suzette Mayr; Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright. Now in its 29th year, the DCC is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English, worth €100,000. For translated works, the author receives €75,000 and the translator receives €25,000. The winner will be announced on 23 May as part of International Literature Festival Dublin (ILFD).
The nominations for the 2024 Hugo Awards have been announced, with the shortlist for Best Novel being: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty; The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera; Translation State, Ann Leckie; Starter Villain, John Scalzi; Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh; Witch King, Martha Wells. The full roster of winners will be announced during the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow over the long weekend of 8-12 August.
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs has won the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award, with The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman (Tin House) being given a special citation.
The winner was announced at Norwescon 46, a science fiction convention held in March in SeaTac, Washington State.