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  Nonagenarian Diana Athill leads Costa book award winners

  5 Jan 2009: On a good night for experienced writers, the former publisher's memoir Somewhere Towards the End takes biography prize

• Crashaw prize winners announced

  19 Dec 2008:

  Six debut poets are to have their first collections of poetry published around the world after winning the inaugural Crashaw prize, due to be awarded annually by the independent poetry press Salt Publishing.

• Banned author makes shortlist for Arabic 'Booker'

  11 Dec 2008:

  Ibrahim Nasrallah among the final six contending for international prize for Arabic fiction

• Guardian first book award: victory for The Rest Is Noise

  Audio (3min 23sec), 4 Dec 2008:

  Alex Ross's history of 20th century music wins 2008 Guardian first book award

• Resounding Guardian first book award victory for The Rest Is Noise

  3 Dec 2008:

  Alex Ross's much acclaimed history of 20th century music is undisputed winner of the 2008 prize

• Scottish book of the year goes to Kieron Smith, Boy

  1 Dec 2008:

  Saltire Society's award goes to Booker winner James Kelman's novel

• Catalan novelist Juan Marsé wins the 'Spanish Nobel prize'

  28 Nov 2008:

  Publishers hope Cervantes prize will spark renewed British interest in 'fantastic' author

• Rare victory for non-fiction book in John Llewellyn Rhys prize

  24 Nov 2008:

  Henry Hitchings's The Secret Life of Words is the first non-fiction book in six years to win the award

• Trescothick scores William Hill sports book victory

  24 Nov 2008:

  'Taboo-breaking' memoir takes £20,000 prize for retired England batsman

• Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize: Cheer up love, it's only a credit crunch

  Gallery (12 pictures), 16 Nov 2008:

  A runner-up in our graphic short story competition, from Isabel Greenberg

• Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize: What do other married people talk about?

  Gallery (10 pictures), 16 Nov 2008:

  Emily Haworth-Booth's runner-up in the 2008 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize

• 2008 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize: Sand dunes & sonic booms

  Gallery (22 pictures), 16 Nov 2008:

  The winner of the 2008 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize, from Julian Hanshaw

• Steve Toltz: Guardian first book award

  Audio (8min 10sec), 15 Nov 2008:

  Steve Toltz talks to Claire Armitstead about his first book, A Fraction of the Whole

• Roald Dahl prize winner follows in the master's footsteps

  13 Nov 2008:

  Andy Stanton has won the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize with Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, the fifth book in a darkly funny series which follows in the footsteps of the master of madcap humour commemorated by the award.

• First Warwick prize for writing longlist announced

  13 Nov 2008:

  A brief to highlight the "moving edge" of writing results in a varied list ranging from science fiction to musical history

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