Folio prize 2017 widens scope to judge fiction alongside non-fiction

Literary establishment’s alternative to the Man Booker will return as ‘the only major prize to reward what is genuinely the best book of the year’

The Folio prize, the literary award that was established in the wake of criticism of the Booker and suspended last year when its sponsor dropped out, has announced that it will be returning in 2017 and expanding its focus to include non-fiction.

The award’s director said that this was because “readers are less and less interested in the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction”, and that the change in focus would mean it would become “the only major literary prize to reward what is genuinely the best book of the year”.

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