They've announced the Guardian first book award 2013 longlist -- eleven titles.
It's a bit of an exaggeration that: "The first book award is unique among literary prizes in judging fiction against non-fiction" (theWhitbread Costa Book Award also pits non-fiction against fiction (and poetry) at the final stage; the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize considers both fiction and non for its finalists, etc. etc.) -- and I'm not really sure it makes sense to lump the two together anyway; still a reasonably interesting list -- though I haven't so much as seen any of these.
(I note also that the rather strict/demanding requirements for entry -- including a £150+VAT per book entry fee and a Man Booker-like limit of two submissions per publisher -- which presumably limited the field (i.e. publishers were careful in what they submitted). But good for them for being at least open to books in translation (as long as the original didn't appear more than five years earlier -- which actually also cuts down that field quite a bit too); I wonder whether any in-translation first-timers were submitted.)
It's a bit of an exaggeration that: "The first book award is unique among literary prizes in judging fiction against non-fiction" (the
(I note also that the rather strict/demanding requirements for entry -- including a £150+VAT per book entry fee and a Man Booker-like limit of two submissions per publisher -- which presumably limited the field (i.e. publishers were careful in what they submitted). But good for them for being at least open to books in translation (as long as the original didn't appear more than five years earlier -- which actually also cuts down that field quite a bit too); I wonder whether any in-translation first-timers were submitted.)