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My next book #AlexanderandMaria has been nominated for the #RSLOndaatjePrize and I am deeply humbled and honoured. ✨🙏🏼📚
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So lovely to meet and celebrate the wonderful shortlisted authors, as well as the last two years' winners of the #RSLOndaatjePrize yesterday in the stunning Two Temple Place. Just *slightly* more work than an online announcement but worth it to give everyone a good night out! 👏
Tonight at Hay Festival, really inspirational conversation (+reading) btw Peter Frankopan & poet Roger Robinson, recent #RSLOndaatjePrize , with 'empathy' and 'vulnerability' as keywords. 🙏👏
You can order #APortableParadise directly via Peepal Tree Press :
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Look at that cheesy grin 😆 Such an honour to meet Bernardine Evaristo and belatedly celebrate last year’s #RSLOndaatjePrize . And huge congrats to this year’s winner Lea Ypi 💫💫💫
'Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors' - Ian Penman Ian Penman #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Fitzcarraldo Editions
‘The slimness of this book belies the immensity of its content. The world of European cinema, especially Fassbinder’s world seen through Ian Penman’s eyes, has transported me to a…
📣The shortlist for the 2024 #RSLOndaatjePrize is here📣🥳
From 194 entries to 14 longlisted titles, our judges Jan Carson Xiaolu Guo and Francis Spufford have selected the following shortlist:
In case you missed it, we announced the #Shortlist for the 2024 #RSLOndaatjePrize on Friday!
Six wonderful books, all evoking the spirit of a place 🌇 The winner will be announced on 14 May, congratulations again to our shortlisted authors 👏
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'Falling Animals' - Sheila Armstrong @sheela_no_gig #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Bloomsbury Books UK
'A truly impressive debut from a storyteller who knows how to control the rhythm and poetry of her narrative. I was immersed in that unique Irish landscape, the mystery of ‘the man,’ and…
'A Flat Place' - Noreen Masud #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Penguin Books UK
‘Utterly unlike any other piece of nature writing I’ve ever come across, ‘A Flat Place’ unsettled me in the very best sense. The writing is painfully honest, hauntingly so and yet not without a lyricality which…
Spotted in the window of my lovely local bookshop
Ink@84 Books & Drink (with a surely strategically-placed farm bingo set in the background...!) 🐮🥳 #RSLOndaatjePrize
I’m so utterly thrilled that Free has won the Royal Society of Literature Royal Society of Literature 2022 #RSLOndaatjePrize for the best book in English evoking the ‘spirit of a place’! What an incredible shortlist and how exciting to see the spirit of Albania bring home the prize🌹🎉!
What a good news day... huge congrats to Louise Hare. #ThisLovelyCity has been longlisted for the #RSLOndaatjePrize !!
HQ Stories Nelle Andrew Elevate (HarperCollinsUK) Katrina Smedley Joe Thomas Claire Brett Royal Society of Literature
'Cuddy' - Benjamin Myers Benjamin Myers #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Bloomsbury Books UK
‘A kaleidoscopic novel of the North-East of England, through five eras from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, brilliantly splintered and coloured and spun by Benjamin Myers. A saint’s-eye song of praise…
So proud of the talented S. K. Perry for being longlisted for the #RSLOndaatjePrize with her debut novel LET ME BE LIKE WATER - out in PB next week. Everyone should read it because it's just beautiful and I want it to win with all my heart.
Melville House Laura West David Higham Books
We're incredibly proud to see the latest book by our publishing house Fox, Finch & Tepper #Iberia by Julian Sayarer longlisted for the #RSLOndaatjePrize , celebrating books with outstanding spirit of place - what excellent company it's keeping!
'No Man's Land' - David Nash David Nash #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Dedalus Press
‘A lyric reckoning with the rural landscape of home, by a queer Irish poet returning quietly bereft to County Cork, and deploying a dizzying formal inventiveness to take in what was once familiar’ –…
'Enter Ghost' - Isabella Hammad #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Vintage Books Jonathan Cape
‘I was blown away by the way Hammad manages to weave so many ideas, perspectives and conceits into ’Enter Ghost’ without once compromising the integrity of her storytelling. This is a novel which…
It's our sheer pleasure to announce that Sunjeev Sahota's #ChinaRoom and Sonia Faleiro's #TheGoodGirls made it to the longlist for the #RSLOndaatjePrize 2022.
Heartiest congratulations to our authors! 🙌🎉
Royal Society of Literature
Congratulations to the Shortlists for the 2024 #RSLOndaatjePrize
Past Winners, Short- and Longlists on ibrowsebooks, the booklist website
ibrowsebooks.com/ondaatje.html