Get a taster of this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist with extracts from each of the six books.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize shortlist of six titles is out today (September 13). In October, Frankfurt Book Fair will have three events in recognition of the prize's international influence.
The post UK’s Man Booker Prize Shortlist of Six Titles Is Announced appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chris Brookmyre has won the £1,000 McIlvanney Prize, previously known as the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, presented at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six days before the announcement of the winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Frankfurt Book Fair will have three events in recognition of its international influence.
The post The Man Booker Prize Gets a Triple Highlight at Frankfurt Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A wide array of poetry and prose, in English and Filipino and other languages, goes into competition in The Philippines' awards program, which comprises work in multiple languages.
The post The Philippines’ National Book Awards Longlist Is Out appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 12-strong shortlist for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards 2016 has been unveiled, with a strong presence from larger publishers Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Penguin Random House.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrator Nicholas John Frith has won the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer in children’s picture book illustration.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is now accepting submissions for its inaugural prize.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles published by Barrington Stoke, Hot Key Books and Birlinn are on the shortlist for the first Scottish Teenage Book Prize, organised by Scottish Book Trust.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has taken over the administration of The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction from charity BookTrust.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime writers Val McDermid and Chris Brookmyre have been shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year, alongside Doug Johnstone and E S Thomson.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
First-time children’s novelist Elizabeth Ezra has won this year’s Kelpies Prize for new Scottish writing for children.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Of an initial 156 books, the jury in the 25,000-euro German Book Prize has selected 20 titles 'linguistically diverse' titles for the longlist.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is taking three of its "most exciting and lauded" debut writers, Andrew Michael Hurley, Lisa McInerney and Jessie Greengrass, on a nationwide tour of Waterstones bookshops in Bath, Liverpool and London this September.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Co-founder of Oneworld, Juliet Mabey, and authors A L Kennedy and Irenosen Okojie, have been selected to judge literature development organisation Spread the Word's London Short Story Prize 2016.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mariella Frostrup and Joanna Kavenna will be judging Harvill Secker’s Norwegian-language Young Translators’ Prize 2016.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape's Man Booker Prize-longlisted titles All That Man Is by David Szalay and Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh have been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize, alongside two titles from Faber and one each from Scribe and Canongate.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Sunny Singh and Catherine Johnson have been revealed as judges of the inaugural Jhalak Prize for Best Book by a Writer of Colour alongside Alex Wheatle, Musa Okwonga and Yvette Edwards.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Antonio Garcia Martinez's Silicon Valley exposé Chaos Monkeys (Ebury) has been longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book in honour of the sacrifice of Anzac soldiers has been named Margaret Mahy Book of the Year.
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[ Source: Stuff | 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]