Rathbones Folio prize ‘refreshing format’ to expand to three categories

Winners for fiction, nonfiction and poetry will each receive £2,000 and then compete for the overall £30,000 award

Novelists Ali Smith, Jackie Kay and Guy Gunaratne are to judge a new, expanded Rathbones Folio prize for 2023. The prize is set to expand to three categories, filling a gap left by the demise of the Costa book awards.

Launched in 2014, the Folio prize has been awarded annually to a work of literature. In 2017, it was opened to nonfiction and poetry as well, although it still named only one winner a year.