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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Vahni Capildeo has won the 25th Forward Prize for Best Collection, bagging £15,000 award for her work Measure of Expatriation (Carcanet). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Out of 156 original submissions, the seven-member jury led by Christoph Schröder chose six novels for the prestigious German Book Prize shortlist. The post 2016 German Book Prize Shortlist Highlights Six New Novels appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Kirkus Prizes, which at $50,000 each are among the most lucrative literary prizes in the country, announced their finalists Tuesday morning. The awards, sponsored by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews, are given in three categories: fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrea Wulf has been named the 29th winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for her biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature (John Murray), about an explorer, naturalist and foreign member of the Royal Society. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
While the award aims for ever greater inclusivity, one of the newer rules closes the competition to some of the very best writing in EnglishMan Booker 2016 shortlist announced: UK, Canadian and US authors dominateIn 2013, back when I was working for independent Dublin publisher The Lilliput... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Get a taster of this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist with extracts from each of the six books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-14 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. Continue reading >> [ 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. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]