The winner of the Man Booker International Prize is A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen.
• Ingrid Persaud, from Trinidad, has won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize 2017 with The Sweet Sop. The regional winners were Tracy Fells for The Naming of Moths (see p12), Akwaeke Emezi for Who is Like God, Anushka Jasraj for Drawing Lessons, and Nat Newman for The Death of Margaret Roe.
• The shortlist for Amazon’s first £20,000 UK Storyteller Award is: Long Standing Ambition: the first solo round Britain windsurf, Jono Dunnett; The Relic Hunters, David Leadbeater; Wyvern Awakening, Joanna Mazurkiewicz; Henry Book Three of the Tudor Trilogy, Tony Riches; Tombyards & Butterflies, Orlando A Sanchez; Lost In You, Jade Winters.