Saturday, January 03, 2015

Books in 2015: the essential literary calendar

New novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Franzen and Toni Morrison; film versions of Suite Française and Alan Bennett’s Lady in the Van; the 150th birthdays of Alice in Wonderland and WB Yeats – we look forward to the literary treats of 2015

2015, THE LADY IN THE VAN
The film version of Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van, directed by NIcholas Hytner (2015). Photograph: Allstar/BBC Films
5 Costa prize category winners announced – best novel, first novel, biography, poetry collection and children’s book. The writer who will follow The Shock of the Fall author Nathan Filer as overall winner will be revealed on 27 January.

12 Winner of TS Eliot poetry prize (with value increased to £20,000) announced a week after the 50th anniversary of Eliot’s death in 1965.
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