Print and online magazines are now eligible for Pulitzer Prizes in all journalism categories. The Pulitzer Prize Board announced Wednesday that entries of work done in 2016 will be accepted... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The jury has decided: Bodo Kirchhoff wins the 2016 German Book Prize for his novel 'Encounter' ('Widerfahrnis') about two travelers in Italy. The post Bodo Kirchhoff Wins the German Book Prize 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, is on the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bangladeshi publisher, writer and editor Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (known as Tutul) has been named 2016 International Writer of Courage by Margaret Atwood. Chowdhury accepted the prize in person this evening (13th October) at the British Library during a ceremony held to celebrate Atwood's PEN... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Songwriter and lyricist Bob Dylan was named the 109th laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 13, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Internet proved predictably opinionated upon learning that Bob Dylan had been chosen as the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Impress Books has awarded Magdalena McGuire the Impress Prize for New Writers 2016 for her novel, The Shape of Your Song. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among the nominees for this year's awards, which will be given out on November 16, are Colson Whitehead, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Peter Gizzi. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Costa has announced the judging panels for the 2016 Costa Book Awards, which include writers Nicci Gerrard, Justin Cartwright, Mary Loudon, Andrew O’Hagan and Matthew Dennison, poet, author and vlogger Jen Campbell, and author-illustrator, Cressida Cowell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
From left, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Rita Dove. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
You Must Bring A Hat by Simon Philip and Kate Hindley (Simon & Schuster) was announced as the ‘book of the year’ at the Sainsbury Children’s Book Awards 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Norway's Marta Eidsvåg has won the Harvill Secker's Young Translators’ Prize 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Biographers' Club has revealed the shortlist for the 2016 Tony Lothian Prize, which awards £2,000 to the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books from Jonathan Cape and Faber and Faber, as well as new African literature publisher Cassava Republic, are on the shortlist for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, run by Goldsmiths University in association with the New Statesman. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, includes works by Emma Donoghue and Mona Awad. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
An autobiography by "one of football's most controversial figures", Joey Barton, has been longlisted for the 2016 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Claudia Rankine was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship grant for her work that engages with contemporary American culture, particularly issues of race. Her most recent book, 2014’s “Citizen,” racked up stacks of awards for its searing take on the personal and political, including the death... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Winner of the Royal Society Book Prize, Andrea Wulf, is one of four British authors to have made the six-strong longlist for the 2016 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, is among the names on the 2016 longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]