The writing in **Giada Scodellaro** ’s debut novel **Ruins, Child** is difficult to define and grasp onto. Like the comma in its title, the novel is constantly spliced, refracted: a group of people are crowding around to watch the same film they always watch, a film of themselves and their elders; now the beauty of crumbling buildings is being assessed by a floating, undefined voice; now we’re hearing about Stevie Wonder’s Thehellip; read more raquo;

We are pleased to announce The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Longlist. This year, we received over 180 submitted titles with U.S. publication dates between January 1 and December 31, 2026....

Dionne Brand says of Giada Scodellaro debut novel, winner of the prestigious Novel Prize: “Ruins, Child takes us to the crumbling architecture of a future past; a future past that is possibly now. In ...

The leg, a line. A close-up of a woman’s leg. And the leg is seen because the woman is tying her shoes. Isn’t the leg a line? she’s heard saying. Tying up the laces. There’s a certain name the neig…

Out of 1,100 submissions, writer Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child has won the 2024 Novel Prize, and will be published early next year. The Novel Prize is awarded biennially to an unpublished work of…

I keep a tiny notebook on my nightstand where I try to record my years in reading.

French novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Marie NDiaye had already published eight works and won the Prix Femina, a prestigious literary award chosen by an exclusively female jury, when she pen…