{"id":34418,"count":80,"description":"While it's impossible to read every single new release on the book market, the judges of each year's biggest literary awards and prizes come closer than perhaps anyone else. Many of them have to read nearly 200 new titles each year in a matter of months, whittle them down to a 6-7 title shortlist, and (finally, with much difficulty) reason their way to a single winner. That's one of the many reasons why literary awards and prizes are a great way to find the best new books to read.\r\n\r\nBook awards now also cover a variety of genres, from fiction and its subgenres (historical fiction, science fiction, romance books) to nonfiction and its many specialist areas (biography, memoir, history, business). Here's our collection of interviews with the judges of various book awards that we think are worth paying attention to, about their shortlists, year in and year out:\r\n\r\nThe Booker Prize<\/a> (Fiction)\r\n\r\nNobel Prize<\/a> (Literature)\r\n\r\nThe Baillie Gifford Prize<\/a> (Nonfiction)\r\n\r\nWolfson Prize<\/a> (History)\r\n\r\nWalter Scott Prize<\/a> (Historical fiction)\r\n\r\nArthur C Clarke Prize<\/a> (Science fiction)\r\n\r\nThe Hugos<\/a> (Science Fiction and Fantasy)\r\n\r\nThe Financial Times<\/em> Book Prize<\/a> (Nonfiction that's relevant to business)\r\n\r\nThe Royal Society Book Prizes<\/a> (Science, both adults and children's)\r\n\r\nThe Pushkin House Prize<\/a> (Nonfiction on Russia)\r\n\r\nThe Audies<\/a> (Audiobooks)\r\n\r\nPulitzer Prize<\/a> (History of the United States)","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/books\/book-awards\/","name":"Book Awards","slug":"book-awards","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=34418"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?tags=34418"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?tags=34418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}