Awards and prizes
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Newsflash: Six books in the running for the 15th Blue Peter book award, including Chris Riddell’s new Goth Girl adventure and, for the first time ever, a comic strip
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Newsflash: Old hands Marcus Sedgwick, David Almond and James Dawson compete with newcomers Non Pratt, Sally Green and others among the top 10 titles up for the £2,000 prize
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Booker winner beats distinguished peers to clinch Literary Review award on strength of passage from The Age of Magic
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Andrew Pulver: Paweł Pawlikowski’s story about a young nun discovering the troubled past of her Jewish family is as remarkable for its subtlety as for its power
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Children's books Enter the Cuckoo Young Writers Award 2015 and hear from one of last year's winners!
Site member Wolfheart tells us what it was like to win the Cuckoo Young Writers Award, a branch of the Nothern Writers’ Award specifically for young writers, with the first book in her ‘Wilderness’ trilogy
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Zanele Muholi’s portraits of post-apartheid sexuality join Nikolay Bakharev’s shots of swimmers in an eclectic, political selection
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JC Chandor drama gathers critical momentum ahead of Oscars season, with wins for leads Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac
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Following previous designs by Vivienne Westwood and Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin is the latest prominent British figure to use the music award as canvas
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A 54-minute Marxist meditation has just won Duncan Campbell the Turner prize. The artist tells Charlotte Higgins about the dialectics of Christmas stockings, his Das Kapital reading group with Michael Clark – and picking a fight with the British Museum
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$100,000 composing award honours the prolific 62-year-old musician
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If squabbles over format, pricing and Amazon have led the US publishing industry to neglect an ever more diverse audience, we have forgotten why people read books in the first place
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Richard Linklater’s coming of age drama chief victor at New York Critics Circle awards, while Birdman triumphs at Gotham awards and The Boxtrolls leads Annie nominations
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Leading British architect, who works in both cities, bemoans lack of public realm and discussion of buildings’ meaning in Britain
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The Dublin-born film artist is the favourite to win the art prize, which will be announced tonight – though nearly every year brings a surprise
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Producer and musician takes home €10,000 for his lifetime of ‘musical transgression’ at prestigious ceremony
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Powerful performance wins Anderson the best actress award at the 60th London Evening Standard theatre awards
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As the glitterati prepare for the British Fashion awards, follow our insider’s guide to one of the most glamorous events of the year
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Industry figures praise 80-year-old, a fixture at end of catwalks for five decades, after announcement of special award
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Kingston University Writing School’s new prize for short fiction is named after me, so I was invited to judge it. It’s been a bracing experience
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Get to know the five novels – whose subjects range from the glory days of the Mughal empire to traumatised modern Sri Lanka – in contention for the $50,000 award
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Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland is one of five finalists, alongside two fiction debuts, in contention for $50,000 award
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Nicholls is named UK author of the year for Us, Walliams wins top children’s book prize with Awful Auntie and cookery writer Mary Berry scoops outstanding achievement award
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Marina Hyde: As if we needed a definitive sign that the humanitarian-awards industry was out of control, the former prime minister receives a gong from Save the Children. Where will the madness end?
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With just two nominations from the whole of Africa and South America, the prize’s reach is far more limited than it at first appears, says Marcia Lynx Qualey
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Australian singer was biggest winner on night, but gave away her awards to fans after being criticised for being a ‘no-show’ at event
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Colin Barrett’s intense stories of smalltown Irish life, Young Skins, praised as the work of an author ‘with a clear path ahead of them’
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Ex-Moscow bureau chief recognised for his work on WikiLeaks, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the Snowden revelations
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Winners of the 28th Arias awards included 5 Seconds of Summer, One Direction, Sia, Iggy Azalea and Hilltop Hoods, with Delta Goodrem and Katy Perry also in attendance
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For the readers’ group helping to assess the 2014 contenders, it’s been a sometimes arduous but always enjoyable journey
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Sia and Chet Faker among the big winners at Australian music awards, but 5 Seconds of Summer and One Direction leave young fans weak at the knees
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It’s the night when the biggest names in Australian music take home spiky triangular pyramids. We’ll be watching it on TV and live from the red carpet. Join us and share your thoughts
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Snack food bought, collapsible chairs brought, phone batteries charged. For the crowd staking out the red carpet at the Aria awards, the goal is a selfie with a star
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Media Monkey: Despite winning yet another award, the series will not be returning to British screens
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The children’s author, whose triumph at the National Book awards was marred by a racist gaffe, on swimming against the tide in a white industry and how her own story is entwined with that of America
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Notebook These are tough times for the Turner Prize, but hardly the apocalypse