The author Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction this year for his novel “The Underground Railroad.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an evening of references to the US general election, the National Book Award ceremony brought to the fore writers of color, the Civil Rights movement, and joy as 'an act of resistance.' The post The 2016 National Book Awards: Lewis, Kendi, Borutzky, Whitehead and Politics appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libyan writer Hisham Matar has won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, awarded at the Biographers' Club prize dinner yesterday evening (15th November) at the Savile Club in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Wednesday evening, November 16, five finalists for the Young People's Literature prize headed to Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan for the 67th National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a year plagued by racial tensions, Colson Whitehead took the National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Underground Railroad," a visceral and creative imagining of a female slave's escape from slavery. Although it takes years to write a book and bring it to publication, the National... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 67th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the junction where politics and publishing meet was in the spotlight from the start. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philippe Sands' East West Street (W&N), a personal account of the history of genocide and crimes against humanity, has won the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of East London is launching a new literary fiction prize for young adults, the CityLife Prize for Fiction for Young Writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Society took home three British Book Design & Production Awards last night, including the ceremony’s top award, with a string of smaller and niche operations also lauded for their bold approaches to publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish publishers Tramp Press and New Island are among the small presses that have been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Tramp Press), a book written in a single novel-length sentence, has won the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 for "boldly original fiction”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsmiths Press has released an app for The Goldsmiths Prize ahead of the latest winner, due to be announced tomorrow (9th November). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Harry Potter script and a Beatrix Potter story are among the titles up for Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thien has won the Canadian literary prize, which comes with a C$100,000 purse, for her novel 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent is the only novel on the six-book shortlist, up against JK Rowling’s play script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and a long-lost Beatrix Potter storySarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent might have missed out on the big literary prizes this year, but her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling and Beatrix Potter are among the six authors shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2016, chosen by Waterstones booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A literary tribute to Istanbul wins the 1-million-ruble award based at Leo Tolstoy's estate in this year's round of awards, just announced. The post Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk Leads Russian Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stratford Literary Festival and independent publisher The Salariya Book Company are launching a prize for new picture book authors and illustrators. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Dylan has broken his silence over winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, saying he will attend the ceremony “if possible”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Called in promotional text “exclusively Irish, inclusive in every other sense,” the Bord Gáis Energy Book Awards shortlists are now open for readers’ votes. By Dennis Abrams | @DennisAbrams2 November 11 Is Vote Deadline he shortlists for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]