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  Resounding Guardian first book award victory for The Rest Is Noise

  Dec 3 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

  Dec 1 2008:

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

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

  Nov 28 2008:

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

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

  Nov 24 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

  Nov 24 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), Nov 16 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), Nov 16 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), Nov 16 2008:

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

• Steve Toltz: Guardian first book award

  Audio (8min 10sec), Nov 15 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

  Nov 13 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

  Nov 13 2008:

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

• Graphic Short Story Prize

  Nov 9 2008:

  A haunting seaside tale by Julian Hanshaw wins our second annual contest

• Sphere of Birds wins Jerwood Aldeburgh prize

  Nov 8 2008:

  Ciaran Berry's debut collection takes £3,000 award

• Alex Ross: Guardian first book award

  Audio (16min 09sec), Nov 8 2008:

  Nominee for the Guardian first book award talks to Claire Armitstead about The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

• Booker winner squares up to narrative poem for John Llewellyn Rhys prize

  Nov 3 2008:

  Aravind Adiga shortlisted for this year's John Llewellyn Rhys prize alongside Adam Foulds's The Broken Word

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