Prizes

• Caine Prize 2019 roadshow

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  Monday, 17 June 2019

  Shortlisted authors visit the UK for five events, plus the prize ceremony
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• Robin Robertson wins Walter Scott prize

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  Monday, 17 June 2019

  Cape publisher, also shortlisted for the Booker and winner of the Goldsmith prize, takes £25,000 historical fiction prize
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• IBW winning authors unveiled

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  Friday, 14 June 2019

  Pat Barker, Joseph Coelho and Catherine Doyle win the Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards 2019
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• Nick Sharratt wins first Alligator's Mouth Award

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  Friday, 14 June 2019

  Nice Work for the Cat and the King wins inaugural early fiction award
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• Sally Rooney wins 2019 Encore Award

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  Friday, 14 June 2019

  Irish novelist wins second novel prize for Normal People; author now in midst of writing third novel
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• Emily Ruskovich wins Dublin Literary Award

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  Thursday, 13 June 2019

  Idaho wins world's richest literary award for a single work
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• Chernobyl book wins Pushkin Prize

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  Thursday, 13 June 2019

  Serhii Plohky wins the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize for a second time, with Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
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• PEN Ackerley 2019 shortlist announced

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  Wednesday, 12 June 2019

  Memoirs by Christian Donlan, Yrsa Daley-Ward, William Miller
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• Mary Fulbrook wins Wolfson History Prize 2019 for Reckonings

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  Wednesday, 12 June 2019

  Top history prize, worth £40,000, goes to Fulbrook's study of the Holocaust and the subsequent post-war failures of East and West Germany to prosecute war criminals
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• Sir Antony Sher wins STR Theatre Book Prize

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  Wednesday, 12 June 2019

  Actor's account of playing King Lear for the RSC takes top theatre prize
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