The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched a literary prize worth €20,000 to promote the importance of literature in translation; our Culture and Development team are looking for experienced multi-disciplinary research teams to undertake a rigorous Literature Review of existing evidence to inform its Culture and Development programme; we are seeking consultants to act as participant evaluators in our South Asia heritage programme; and British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel prize in literature. 

This year's Turner Prize exhibition has launched at Ferens Art Gallery in Hull as part of the UK City of Culture 2017 programme. 

The Prize is awarded annually to an artist born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition or public presentation of their work anywhere in the world in the previous year.

This year's shortlist includes Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi. Three of the artists; Anderson, Himid and Nashashibi all have works as part of the British Council Collection. We also invited a delegation of curators from across the world to visit the exhibition. 

> Find out more about the Prize in this BBC Front Row article