We are delighted to announce that the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year is
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson (Non-Fiction)
Jefferson said: I feel very lucky to be a non-fiction writer. […] This is a Writers’ Prize. Nothing is more precious than knowing that other writers take their time, their energy and imagination to really appreciate what I – what me, what every writer in this room – have tried and will keep trying to do. Thank you, thank you and thank you!
Category Winner Fiction: Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
Category Winner Poetry: Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 Shortlists
Non-Fiction
The Passengers by Will Ashon
In Love by Amy Bloom
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson – WINNER, NON-FICTION CATEGORY & BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey
Fiction
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser – WINNER, FICTION CATEGORY
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Poetry
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley – WINNER, POETRY CATEGORY
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial
Manorism by Yomi Ṣode