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Guardian first book award

May 2020

  • Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos interviewed in Barcelona<br>epa08212848 Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos poses during his interview with Spanish international news agency Efe in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 12 February 2020, on occasion of the presentation of his latest book ‘La invasion del pueblo del espiritu’ (lit. ‘The invasion of the spirit’s people’). EPA/Alejandro Garcia

    I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos review – an eccentric hybrid

    Pulpy crime fiction and avant-garde archness combine for an exuberant take on literary life

August 2019

  • Gary Cooper testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As life-long Republican, the friendly HUAC witness<br>EG6TCB Gary Cooper testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As life-long Republican, the friendly HUAC witness

    Night for Day by Patrick Flanery review – double lives examined

    The past haunts the present in a multi-layered narrative centred on the film industry and themes of betrayal

August 2018

  • Andrew McMillan

    On my radar
    On my radar: Andrew McMillan’s cultural highlights

    The poet and winner of the Guardian First Book award on the joys of Liberty of London, Robyn, and this year’s most arresting voices

May 2016

  • Max Porter.

    Dylan Thomas award goes to Max Porter's 'extraordinary feat'

    Grief Is the Thing With Feathers – a book about bereavement ‘like nothing else’ – takes £30,000 award

April 2016

  • Zadie Smith, winner of The Guardian First Book award for her novel White Teeth.

    Guardian first book award: all the winners

  • Andrew McMillan, winner of the Guardian First Book Awards 2015 reads a poem from his winning book, Physical. It is the first poetry book to win the prize since it began. Books editor and judge Claire Armitstead holds the mic. The event was held at OXO2, on London’s Southbank

    Books blog
    Saying goodbye to the Guardian first book award

November 2015

  • The poet Andrew McMillan at the Guardian first book award

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian first book award winner Andrew McMillan – books podcast

    We join judges, readers, the editor Robin Robertson and the winner of the 2015 Guardian first book award, Andrew McMillan

  • McMillan, Andrew (c) Innes Morrison 2014. Supplied by: CMaxwell@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk

    Guardian first book award 2015 goes to poet Andrew McMillan

    McMillan becomes the first poet to win the £10,000 prize with Physical, a ‘breathtaking’ collection that explores modern male anxiety in settings from the gym to northern industrial towns
    • Guardian first book award shortlist 2015

    • Books blog
      A long way to the shortlist: choosing the Guardian first book award finalists

    • Poet makes Guardian first book award shortlist with 'hymns to the male body'

October 2015

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    Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume review – a deft and moving debut

    One man and his dog embark on a road trip in this haunted tale of isolation and belonging, longlisted for the Guardian first book award

September 2015

  • A crow in a field

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Max Porter and Katharine Norbury on grief – books podcast

    We discuss how literature can be forged from sadness with two writers longlisted for the Guardian first book award
  • Max Porter

    Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter review – a lyrical study of loss

    Inspired by Ted Hughes’s Crow, this remarkable debut is a slippery, beguiling thing, recently longlisted for the Guardian first book award
  • Petina Gappah

    Petina Gappah interview: ‘I’ve written a very Zimbabwean story – we keep a lot of family secrets’

    The awardwinning short-story writer on returning home, changing perceptions and taking six years to write her new novel

August 2015

  • The longlist for the Guardian first book award 2015

    Guardian first book award 2015 longlist – in pictures

  • The writer Nell Zink

    Independent publishers dominate 2015 Guardian first book award longlist

  • Sara Baume: 'I suppose it is autobiographical.'

    Sara Baume is readers' nominee for Guardian first book award 2015

  • Sara Baume’s narrator, Ray, gets a dog after seeing a shop window advert.

    Books blog
    How Sara Baume made it on to the Guardian first book award longlist

June 2015

  • A man at the Hay festival with a pile of books.

    Books blog
    Add your nominations for the Guardian first book award 2015

    One of the titles on the longlist for this year’s prize for literary debuts is up to readers. Please make your nominations below
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