News - Book Awards

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Authors Jamila Gavin, Patrice Lawrence, Struan Murray and Jenny Pearson have been shortlisted for the Children's Fiction Award for the Nero Book Awards 2025. The award shortlists for adult Fiction, Non-Fiction and Debut Fiction were also announced today. ...

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The shortlist for the 2025 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize has been announced, including six books that showcase the best of the year's science books for under 14s. The Yo...

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Monday, November 3, 2025

Nominations have been announced for the 2026 Carnegies, the UK's longest-running children's book award, with 125 nominations across both awards, the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for illustration.

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Friday, October 24, 2025

The charity behind two of the world’s most significant literary prizes has announced a new £50,000 award for children's fiction, supported by the AKO Foundation.

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Friday, October 10, 2025

The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2025, highlighting diverse voices across children's, YA and adult books, were celebrated at an event at Waterstones Piccadilly, hosted by poet Anneliese Amoah. The Diver...

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Sarah Hagger Holt has won the Little Rebels Award 2015 for her novel The Fights That Make Us, a cross-generational story that honours the LGBTQ+ activists of the 1980s and 90s and their struggle against Section 28, and role of contemporary activists.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

The 2026 longlists for the UKLA Book Awards, announced today, include books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres, topics and themes. The national children's book awards is judged by teachers and aims to showcase high quality...

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Emma Farrarons is the winner of the 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to the most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration. She won for her illustrations in My...

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