John Llewellyn Rhys prize

Sam Leith: Literary prizes might be 'posh bingo' but at least they direct money to writers

Administrator Booktrust says funding problems have forced them to cancel this year's award

The author of The Still Point explains to Richard Lea how her debut book, which has just won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize, began 'out of desperation'

Judges call novel 'breathtaking', predicting a future littered with international awards for the first-time author

Book that grew out of blog by Canadian doctor James Maskalyk shortlisted for award alongside Booker and Orange winners

Henry Hitchings's The Secret Life of Words is the first non-fiction book in six years to win the award

Brian Schofield: Do men have an unfair advantage in our literary prize shortlists?

Aravind Adiga shortlisted for this year's John Llewellyn Rhys prize alongside Adam Foulds's The Broken Word

Sarah Hall, who won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize this week, on how the controversial, post-apocalyptic, 1970s children's book Z for Zachariah inspired her love of reading and her own futuristic novel

Sarah Hall has won the 2006/7 John Llewellyn Rhys prize, which celebrates the best fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama from the UK and the Commonwealth, with her third novel, The Carhullan Army, a tough portrait of life in a near-future Britain after the oil runs out.