Awards

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2026

The Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2026 Edgar Awards, which honors the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2025.

The winners will be announced on April 29th at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel.

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The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025

The finalists for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced in six categories: Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry.

Other announcements included the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the NBCC Service Award, the winner and finalists for the Nona Balakian Citation, the finalists for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, and the shortlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards will be presented on March 26th at the New School in New York City, in a ceremony that will be open to the public and will be livestreamed on the NBCC’s YouTube channel.

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The National Book Awards 2025

The winners of the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 19th at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony.

Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. Roxane Gay, whose books include the essay collection BAD FEMINIST and the memoir HUNGER, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And George Saunders, who won the 2017 Booker Prize for LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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The Booker Prize 2025

The 2025 Booker Prize has been awarded to David Szalay for his novel, FLESH. A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, the book chronicles a man at odds with himself --- estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Click here to read more about David Szalay, who is the first Hungarian-British author to win the award, and FLESH, which Roddy Doyle, Chair of the judges, calls "an extraordinary, singular novel --- a dark book that is a joy to read."

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess. But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks to the East in adopting a more contemplative, finely calibrated tone.

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The 2025 Kirkus Prize

The winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature were announced on October 8th in an in-person ceremony at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York that also was livestreamed on Kirkus's YouTube channel.

Tom Beer, the editor-in-chief of Kirkus, said, “This year’s Kirkus Prize winners bring us vital messages for our time --- messages about the joys of community, the power of self-transformation, and the mutability of historical events --- all conveyed through exhilarating prose and pictures.”

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Macavity Awards 2025

The winners of this year’s Macavity Awards have been announced. The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories.

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2025 Thriller Awards

On June 21st, during ThrillerFest XX, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the winners of the 2025 Thriller Awards at the the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.

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The 2025 International Booker Prize

The winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize is Banu Mushtaq's HEART LAMP. Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, it is the first collection of short stories to win the prize.

Written between 1990 and 2023, the book's 12 stories chronicle the lives of women and girls in patriarchal communities in southern India. Mushtaq, a lawyer and major voice within progressive Kannada literature, is a prominent champion of women’s rights and a protester against caste and religious oppression in India, and was inspired to write the stories by the experiences of women who came to her seeking help. She becomes the second Indian author to win the International Booker Prize after Geetanjali Shree in 2022.

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Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2025

The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024.

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