@ThePortico #PorticoPrize “…Vividly evokes a period in recent history with themes that carry clear, if painful echoes, to today” Gary Younge, Chair of Judges 20.15: Thursday 20 January, MANCHESTER: Sally J Morgan has won The Portico Prize for Literature for her debut novel Toto Among the Murderers. Mostly set in Leeds and […]
SHORTLIST FOR THE 2022 PORTICO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ANNOUNCED
List features five novels, one memoir, four debuts Jenn Ashworth; James Corbett; Sairish Hussain; Tabitha Lasley; Sally J. Morgan; Andrew O’Hagan “The list illustrates the degree to which there is not one North but many, rooted not just in place but time, gender, race and religion: all moulded into elegant prose and conveyed […]
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021
A fresh account of imperial history told from the perspective of the peoples of the global South Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram praised for “spellbinding” work of ingenuity and meticulous research #BritishAcademyBookPrize @BritishAcademy_ 17.30h BST Tuesday 26 October, LONDON: Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaramis today named […]
THE PORTICO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ANNOUNCES 2022 LONGLIST
Eight debuts across list of 14 books The longlist for The Portico Prize for Literature – the UK’s only award for outstanding Northern writing – is announced today, Tuesday 28 September, 2021. The £10,000 biennial prize is open to new works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry that best evoke the spirit of […]
The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021 Shortlist announced
The British Academy’s £25,000 international non-fiction book prize Global shortlist of four exceptional writers exploring: the impact of revolution and empire on the global South the modern colonial nation and its part in the creation of permanent minorities racism in America as viewed through the works and example of James Baldwin the […]
Judges announced for the Portico Prize for Literature
£10,000 award for outstanding Northern writing Judges are Sarah Hall, Momtaza Mehri, Melanie Sykes, Anita Singh and Gary Younge Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2021 The Portico Library in Manchester is pleased to announce the panel of judges for the Portico Prize for Literature, as it opens for entries today, Tuesday 8 […]
OSHER: My journey to Judaism
By Tetiana Michaels Publication date: 22 April 2021 “The tender story of a woman who feels that in converting to Judaism, she is coming home. A love letter about family, faith and osher – happiness” Sherri Mandell, award-winning author Osher, the Hebrew word for ‘joy, fortunate, blessing’, is the truthful, moving story […]
Georgia’s Fantastic Tavern: Where Europe Meets Asia
25-28 February 2021 An online festival of Georgian writers from the Caucasus, with music and food, inspired by the café culture of the first democratic republic of 1918-21 Festival marks centenary of Soviet invasion of Georgia and 30th anniversary of independence Katie Melua to open festival with specially recorded song in Georgian […]
Barchester Towers voted world’s favourite Anthony Trollope novel
Barchester Towers voted world’s favourite Anthony Trollope novel. Fans of Anthony Trollope have voted Barchester Towers their favourite novel in a campaign by the Trollope Society to encourage more readers worldwide to “Pick-Up-A-Trollope”.
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby wins the British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020
A history of British Empire, told through one woman’s family story “This book, examining the legacies of British imperialism both here and in the island of Jamaica, could not be more timely nor more important.” Professor Sir David Cannadine, Historian and President of the British Academy AlRodhan @BritishAcademy_ 18.30h GMT Tuesday 27 […]