Awards: T.S. Eliot Winner; MWA Edgar Nominees

Bhanu Kapil won the £25,000 (about $34,210) T.S. Eliot Prize, which recognizes "the best new poetry collection written in English and published in 2020," for How to Wash a Heart. Chair of judges Lavinia Greenlaw said: "Our shortlist celebrated the ways in which poetry is responding to profound change, and the stylistic freedom that today's poets have claimed. From this impressive field, we unanimously chose Bhanu Kapil's How to Wash a Heart as our winner. It is a radical and arresting collection that recalibrates what it's possible for poetry to achieve."

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The Mystery Writers of America unveiled its nominees for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2020. The full list of nominees can be viewed here. The 75th Annual Edgar Awards will be celebrated on April 29.

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