Windham-Campbell named eight writers across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama for 2026 - substantial unrestricted grants that still function as one of the quieter major prizes in Anglophone letters.
Publishing Perspectives' write-up is the trade-facing who-won-what: useful if you teach, edit, or translate and want the list without digging through press releases. For winners, the money is the headline; for everyone else, it's a snapshot of whose work the jury thinks should keep going without strings.
(Shortened and summarised to avoid devaluing the source)