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Maria Reva was announced as the winner of the £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize 2026 for Endling, published by Virago, on 5 March. The ceremony took place at Northern Stage, in Gordon Burn’s home city of Newcastle upon Tyne. Maria was joined by her fellow shortlisted authors: Omar El Akkad, Sarah Hall, Elizabeth Lovatt, Anthony Shapland and Morgan Talty for an in-conversation event …
The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026 was announced today. It is: The shortlist includes: a deeply affecting and uniquely informed account of the anguishfelt being an immigrant of Middle Eastern heritage living in the Western world today(One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad); a millennia spanning novel about climate change, told through …
An electrifying list of 12 books longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026 was announced today (27 November 2025). The list is a mix of bold fiction and non-fiction, representing work from writers from the nations and regions of the UK, Canada, and the USA. The Gordon Burn Prize recognises exceptional writing which has an unconventional perspective, style or subject …