Folio Prize

The Folio Prize is a literary award sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society. It is given to an English language book of fiction published in the UK by an author from any country. The first award will be in March of 2014. The jury for the prize is called the Academy, the first academy includes Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee. The prize remuneration is GB£40,000. It was initially called the "Literature Prize" as a placeholder until a sponsor could be found, then the Folio Prize, named for the Folio Society, a publisher of special editions of classic literature. (Wikipedia)

The shortlist was announced 10 February 2014 and the winner will be announced in March. Lavinia Greenlaw was Chair of the jury comprising writers Michael Chabon, Sarah Hall, Nam Le and Pankaj Mishra.

Anne Carson, Red Doc
Amity Gaige, Schroder
Jane Gardam, Last Friends
Kent Haruf, Benediction
Rachel Kushner, The Flame Throwers
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity and
George Saunders, Tenth of December

I hope Jane Gardam wins. I thought her Old Filth series was outstanding.

The winner has been announced this evening and it is George Sanders for Tenth of December.

Eight authors are in the running for the £40,000 prize, which will be awarded at a glittering ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in central London on 23 March.

The shortlist
◾10:04 by Ben Lerner
◾All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
◾Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
◾Family Life by Akhil Sharma
◾How to Be Both by Ali Smith
◾Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
◾Outline by Rachel Cusk

Family Life is the winner of this year's Folio Prize. I gave it 3 1/2 stars, so I wasn't all that impressed with it, and I can't remember much about it.

The Guardian: Akhil Sharma wins Folio prize for fiction

The 2017 Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The Vanishing Man by Laura Cumming
The Return by Hisham Matar
This Census-Taker by China Miéville
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami

The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 24 May at the British Library and will receive a cheque for £20,000.

The Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 Shortlist,

Anything Is Possible – Elizabeth Strout

Conversations With Friends – Sally Rooney

Exit West – Mohsin Hamid

Ghosts of the Tsunami – Richard Lloyd Parry

Once Upon A Time In The East: A Story of Growing Up – Xiaolu Guo

Reservoir 13 – Jon McGregor

The Day That Went Missing – Richard Beard
White Tears – Hari Kunzru

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Mata was the 2017 winner and
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry was the 2018 winner

Looks like as of 2017 they broadened the prize to include non-fiction?

2019
Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance, Winner
Ashleigh Young, Can You Tolerate This?
Alice Jolly, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile
Anna Burns, Milkman
Diana Evans, Ordinary People
Guy Stagg, The Crossway
Tommy Orange, There There
Carys Davies, West

2020
Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Winner
Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
Zadie Smith, Grand Union
Azadeh Moaveni, Guest House for Young Widows
Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands
Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
Fiona Benson, Vertigo & Ghost
James Lasdun, Victory

2021
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House, Winner
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
Elaine Feeney, As You Were
Sara Baume, handiwork
Amina Cain, Indelicacy
Rachel Long, My Darling from the Lions
Caleb Femi, Poor
Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

2022
Colm Tóibín, The Magician, Winner
Philip Hoare, Albert and the Whale
Natasha Brown, Assembly
Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
Selima Hill, Men Who Feed Pigeons
Gwendoline Riley, My Phantoms
Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
Damon Galgut, The Promise