Posted on December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Today's news of literary awards and honors is a mix of the formal and informal.
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A new fiction award for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds is open to writers living in the United Kingdom or Ireland; the Footnote x Counterpoints Prize for Fiction will bring a prize of £15,000 (about $19,840) and a publishing deal (The Guardian).
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The Artist by Lucy Steeds has been named this year’s Waterstones book of the year; The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was chosen as the chain's children's book of the year; and Padella, a pasta cookbook, was revealed as the gift of the year (The Guardian).
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There are so many best-of lists this time of year that it would be easy to overlook a few of them, but this list of lists will help you catch up (Book Riot).
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