The longlist for next year’s Aspen Words Literary Prize features 14 authors in the running for a $35,000 award that honors “a work of fiction that highlights a vital contemporary issue.”
With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?
Tess Gunty and Imani Perry were the big winners at the 73rd National Book Awards, taking home honors in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious literary prizes were announced