Posted on October 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Our newswire editor was off on vacation most of this month, but she's back on the clock now and clearing out her RSS feeder with all the literary news she (and perhaps you) missed.
Here are the literary awards updates from that time:
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Han Kang becomes the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (NPR)
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Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature (The Guardian)
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Watch extracts from the Booker shortlist (The Guardian)
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Forward Poetry Prize goes to Victoria Chang (The Guardian)
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Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make Baillie Gifford shortlist (The Guardian)
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Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage (The Guardian)
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Kate McKinnon to host the 75th National Books Awards ceremony (People)
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Harvey Awards inducts 5 comic creators to hall of fame (The New York Times)
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