The South Bank Sky Arts Awards are one of the worlds most coveted arts awards, celebrating the best of British culture and achievement across visual art, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature, and film.
The glittering annual ceremony is hosted by the South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, and previous winners include Harold Pinter, J. K. Rowling, Dame Judi Dench, and The Who.
Richard House's The Kills has been nominated for the Literature award together with Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and Sathnam Sanghera's Marriage Material (Full list of nominees)
'Once again, the list of nominees for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards shows that the UK arts landscape is as vibrant as ever. Its vital to honour the excellence of artists, performers, musicians and authors especially at this time, and were very glad that we can do this,' commented Melvyn Bragg.