The Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 Shortlist, judged by Jim Crace, Nikesh Shukla, and Kate Summerscale, is as follows: Anything Is Possible – Elizabeth Strout (Viking) Conversations With Friends – Sally Rooney (Faber) Exit West – Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton) Ghosts of...
Jim Crace, Nikesh Shukla and Kate Summerscale have today been announced as the judges for the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize. The Prize, which will recognise the best work of literature published in the UK in 2017, will be awarded at a gala ceremony on 8 May 2018 in...
A L Kennedy, Ross Raisin, Kamila Shamsie and Evie Wyld confirmed as mentors for inaugural Rathbones Folio Mentorship scheme, in association with First Story 20 September 2017: Four Rathbones Folio Academicians were selected by ballot from a pool of nearly 100 writers...
Hisham Matar has won the first £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his “profound and powerful” memoir The Return (Viking). The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between details Matar’s search, both physical and psychological, for his missing...
A month after it secured him a Pulitzer prize, Hisham Matar’s memoir The Return has won the Rathbones Folio prize. The Return tells the story of Matar’s journey to his native Libya in search of his missing father, Jaballa, following the fall of Muammar Gadafi’s...
Held in the magnificent main foyer of the British Library on the 24th of May, the Rathbones Folio Prize Award Ceremony welcomed over 350 guests, the shortlisted authors and judges [envira-gallery slug=”2017-ceremony”]
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