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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
Family Life by Akhil Sharma wins the Folio Prize 2015
Akhil Sharma is announced as the winner of The Folio Prize 2015 for Family Life published by Faber. The Folio Prize is sponsored by The Folio Society, the celebrated publisher of beautiful editions of the world’s greatest books. The Folio Prize 2015, worth £40,000, aims to recognise and celebrate the best English-language fiction from around More