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Hisham Matar announced as finalist for 2017 PEN America Literary Award

Hisham Matar has been announced as a finalist for the 2017 PEN America Literary Award for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between.

For more information about the award, please click here.

(Agent for Hisham Matar: Georgia Garrett)

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14 December 2019

RCW Authors on Man Booker Prize Longlist

14 December 2019

H(A)PPY Shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Longlisted for HWA Crown Awards

14 December 2019

Sharlene Teo shortlisted for Hearst Big Book Awards

14 December 2019

Zadie Smith wins Austrian State Prize for European Literature

14 December 2019

Richard Osmond Scoops Seamus Heaney Centre Prize

14 December 2019

RCW Authors in RSL 40 Under 40

14 December 2019

Katherine Rundell wins Prix Nord de l’Isère

14 December 2019

Megan Hunter wins Foreword Reviews Editor's Choice Prize

14 December 2019

Laura Bates, Elaine Castillo and Sharlene Teo longlisted for The ELLE Big Book Awards

14 December 2019

The Explorer wins FCBG Children’s Book Award

14 December 2019

America Is Not the Heart longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

14 December 2019

Olivia Sudjic shortlisted for The London Magazine and Collyer Bristow Prize

14 December 2019

HBO to develop Kristen Roupenian's debut short story collection You Know You Want This

14 December 2019

Mukherjee and Mina Shortlisted for Theakstons Award

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

14 December 2019

Christopher de Bellaigue and Sam Knight Shortlisted for Orwell Prize

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee Longlisted for Three CWA Daggers

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee Selected for the Zoe Ball Book Club

14 December 2019

MacLaverty and Rundell Shortlisted for IBW Awards

14 December 2019

RCW Writers Longlisted for Edge Hill Prize

14 December 2019

Ghosts of the Tsunami Wins Rathbones Folio Prize

14 December 2019

Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers' Award Shortlist Announced

14 December 2019

How to be Human shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize 2018

14 December 2019

The Silent Patient Sells in 25 Territories

14 December 2019

The Wardrobe Mistress Shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize 2018

14 December 2019

RCW authors Longlisted for Theakston Crime Novel Award

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Shortlisted For Man Booker International Prize

14 December 2019

First Love By Gwendoline Riley Shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize

14 December 2019

Sam Knight longlisted for The Orwell Prize 2018

14 December 2019

Han Kang's Human Acts Shortlisted For Dublin Literary Award

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Nominated As Best British and Irish Novelists by TLS

14 December 2019

How To Be Human By Paula Cocozza Longlisted For Desmond Elliott Prize

14 December 2019

Ghosts of the Tsunami Shortlisted For Rathbones Folio Prize

14 December 2019

First Love Shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize

14 December 2019

Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Award

14 December 2019

Sarah Bakewell has won the Windham-Campbell Prize

14 December 2019

Edmund Gordon has won the Biographers Club Best First Biography Prize

14 December 2019

Isabella Hammad has won the Plimpton Prize

14 December 2019

Nicola Barker longlisted for the Women's Prize

14 December 2019

The Wardrobe Mistress Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Shortlisted in The National Press Awards

14 December 2019

Kathryn Hind Wins The Penguin Random House Australia Literary Prize

14 December 2019

Han Kang and Bernard MacLaverty Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry is New Laureate for Irish Fiction

14 December 2019

Rosinante Announce New Rights Partnership with RCW

14 December 2019

Megan Hunter Finalist in Barnes & Noble's 27th Annual Discover Awards

14 December 2019

Wed Wabbit To Be Turned Into A Family Feature Film

14 December 2019

Edmund Gordon And Valeria Luiselli Finalists In The National Book Critics Circle Awards

14 December 2019

Otegha Uwagba featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee Nominated for Edgar Award

14 December 2019

Michaelides thriller scoops six figure deal

14 December 2019

The Explorer Shortlisted For Edward Stanford's Travel Writing Awards 2018

14 December 2019

Katherine Rundell Wins Costa Award

14 December 2019

Peter Parker Longlisted for PEN Prize

14 December 2019

RCW Authors on NPR's Guide to Great Reads of 2017

14 December 2019

Megan Hunter Nominated for Aspen Words Prize

14 December 2019

Bernard MacLaverty Wins Bord Gáis Novel of the Year Award

14 December 2019

RCW Titles are the Guardian's Best Books of 2017

14 December 2019

Lissa Evans Shortlisted for a Blue Peter Book Award

14 December 2019

RCW Titles Chosen as Books of the Year by the New Statesman

14 December 2019

RCW Titles are New York Times Books of the Year

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Shortlisted for Costa Awards

14 December 2019

Daniel Beer Wins Cundill History Prize

14 December 2019

RCW Titles Chosen as TLS Books of the Year 2017

14 December 2019

Nicola Barker's H(A)PPY wins Goldsmiths Prize 2017

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Selected for Kirkus Best Books of 2017

14 December 2019

Pigeon by Alys Conran Wins Wales Book of the Year

14 December 2019

Tributes pour in for much-loved RCW author Antonio Carluccio

14 December 2019

Mr Lear Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year

14 December 2019

The End We Start Chosen as Belletrist's Book Pick

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Nominated for CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Shortlisted for Irish Book Awards

14 December 2019

Sam Knight and Rachel Cooke Shortlisted for FPA Media Awards

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee Wins CWA Historical Dagger

14 December 2019

Julián Fuks wins 2017 José Saramago Prize

14 December 2019

Michelle Magorian Nominated for the ALMA

14 December 2019

RCW Represents the Raymond Chandler Estate

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Shotlisted for Saltire Society Award

14 December 2019

Denise Mina Wins Gordon Burn Prize

14 December 2019

Alys Conran Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year

14 December 2019

Hisham Matar wins Geschwister-Scholl Preis

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Shortlisted for Readers Awards

14 December 2019

Christopher de Bellaigue Shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize

14 December 2019

Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

14 December 2019

The End We Start From Number One on Indie Next List

14 December 2019

RCW Authors Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medals

14 December 2019

Ed O'Loughlin Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

14 December 2019

Deborah Rogers Foundation Award Now Open

14 December 2019

Nicola Barker and Gwendoline Riley Shortlisted for The Goldsmith's Prize

14 December 2019

Christopher de Bellaigue and Daniel Beer Longlisted for Cundill History Prize

14 December 2019

Sam Copeland Signs Book Deal with Puffin

14 December 2019

Valeria Luiselli, Ross Raisin, Elaine Castillo and Daniel Galera in 'The Future of New Writing'

14 December 2019

Denise Mina Wins McIlvanney Prize

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry Novel Announced

14 December 2019

Zadie Smith and Sebastian Barry Longlisted For Man-Booker Prize 2017

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee, Denise Mina And Kate Summerscale Shortlisted For Daggers

14 December 2019

Denise Mina and Gwendoline Riley on Gordon Burn Prize shortlist

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry and Abir Mukherjee shortlisted for Historical Writers Association Awards

14 December 2019

RCW writers longlisted for Historical Writers' Association awards

14 December 2019

Zadie Smith and Laszlo Krasznahorkai shortlisted for the Dutch European Literature Prize 2017

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry Wins The IBW Book Award

14 December 2019

Fuchsia Dunlop Wins The Guild Of Food Writers' Best Cookery Book Award

14 December 2019

Denise Mina Longlisted For The Scottish Crime Book Of The Year

14 December 2019

Ian Rankin Longlisted For The Scottish Crime Book Of The Year

14 December 2019

Zadie Smith Nominated For The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry Wins The Walter Scott Prize

14 December 2019

Alex von Tunzelmann's Debut Feature Released Today

14 December 2019

Mary Jean Chan shortlisted for The Forward Prizes

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee Nominated For The Dead Good Reader Awards

14 December 2019

Ian Rankin Nominated For The Dead Good Reader Awards

14 December 2019

Sarah Bakewell Shortlisted For The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

14 December 2019

Lou Kuenzler Shortlisted For The Lollies

14 December 2019

David Baddiel Shortlisted for the Lollies

14 December 2019

Zadie Smith Nominated for Southbank Sky Arts Award

14 December 2019

Hisham Matar Nominated For Southbank Sky Arts Award

14 December 2019

Longlist For The Gordon Burn Prize 2017 Announced

14 December 2019

Hisham Matar Wins The Rathbones Folio Prize 2017

14 December 2019

Philippe Sands Shortlisted For The Christopher G. Moore Prize 2017

14 December 2019

The End We Start From film rights acquired

14 December 2019

Denise Mina Longlisted For The CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger

14 December 2019

Andrew Hughes Longlisted For The CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger

14 December 2019

Kate Summerscale Longlisted For The Gold Dagger For Non-Fiction

14 December 2019

Abir Mukherjee Longlisted For The Dagger Award in Two Categories

14 December 2019

Hay Festival Announce the Bogotá39-2017 List of Best Latin American Writers

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry Wins Best Fiction Book and Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017

14 December 2019

Philippe Sands Wins Best Non-Fiction Book at the British Book Awards 2017

14 December 2019

Owen Sheers' David Jones documentary wins Celtic Media Festival Award

14 December 2019

Megan Hunter's The End We Start From picked as Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Title

14 December 2019

Zana Fraillon Shortlisted for the ABIA Awards 2017

14 December 2019

Kate Summerscale Wins The Edgar Award 2017 for Best Fact Crime

14 December 2019

Katherine Rundell and Laura Bates featured on Hay 30 list

14 December 2019

Zana Fraillon, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Katherine Rundell, Sebastian Barry, and Sarah Perry shortlisted for Independent Bookshop Week Award

14 December 2019

IAN RANKIN LONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON'S CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD

14 December 2019

JAMES ROBERTSON NOMINATED FOR BOLLINGER EVERYMAN PRIZE

14 December 2019

HISHAM MATAR WINS THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

14 December 2019

Anne Enright and Valeria Luiselli Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Prize

14 December 2019

Hisham Matar Shortlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize 2017

14 December 2019

Torkil Damhaug Wins the Riverton Prize

14 December 2019

Luke Kennard Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize

14 December 2019

Daniel Saldaña Paris and László Krasznahorkai longlisted for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award

14 December 2019

Hisham Matar wins 2017 PEN America Literary Award

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry and Luke Kennard Longlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry and Charlotte Hobson Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize

14 December 2019

Steven Dunn is a 2017 Colorado Book Award Finalist

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry, Victoria Hislop, Sarah Perry and Philippe Sands Short-listed for British Book Awards Book of the Year

14 December 2019

Frank Cottrell Boyce and Zana Fraillon Short-listed for Carnegie Medal

14 December 2019

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff win at National Press Awards 2016

14 December 2019

Melissa Lee-Houghton shortlisted for 2016 Ted Hughes Award

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry and Gwendoline Riley long-listed for the 2017 Baileys prize

14 December 2019

Sara Barnard and Laure Eve shortlisted for the YA Book Prize

14 December 2019

Philippe Sands is joint Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2017

14 December 2019

Christina Hesselholdt nominated for Nordic Council Literature Prize

14 December 2019

Rebecca Schiff, Claire Harman, Hisham Matar, Zadie Smith and Dana Spiotta are Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalists

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry, Charlotte Hobson, Ed O'Loughlin and Sarah Perry longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize

14 December 2019

Horatio Clare, Zana Fraillon and Frank Cottrell Boyce on the Carnegie Award longlist

14 December 2019

Luke Kennard longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry: First Author To Win Costa Book of the Year Twice!

14 December 2019

Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent competes on Wellcome Prize longlist

14 December 2019

Timothy Garton Ash has won the 2017 Charlemagne Prize

14 December 2019

Fuchsia Dunlop wins prestigious prize for Land Of Fish And Rice

14 December 2019

Hisham Matar Wins French Literary Prize

14 December 2019

Matt Hill shortlisted for 2017 Philip K. Dick Award

14 December 2019

Zadie Smith, Hisham Matar and Jenni Diski announced as National Book Critics Circle Award finalists

14 December 2019

Jacob Polley Wins T.S. Eliot Prize

14 December 2019

Sebastian Barry win Costa Novel Award!