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As we continue our work to secure a new sponsor for the Folio Prize, we have decided not to run a Prize in March 2016. Instead, we are concentrating our resources on another promising development for the spring, while at the same time exploring how the Prize might best fulfil its aim of bringing great More
The Folio Society’s two-year sponsorship of the Folio Prize comes to an end – new sponsor sought
As its two year partnership with the award comes to a close, the Folio Society has today announced it will not renew its title sponsorship of The Folio Prize. Established in 2013, the Literature Prize took the name of The Folio Prize when The Folio Society, publisher of high-quality illustrated books, was named as title More
“Our only agenda was excellence” - William Fiennes on The Folio Prize 2015
“Our Folio Prize shortlist is the result of months of reading and hours of passionate conversation. First the almost physiological challenge of getting through the 80 nominated titles, when we became machines for reading, combine harvesters gorging on sentences. A strange, trippy sensation – from one day to the next we might be reading books More