Crowdfunding publisher Unbound has launched a "major" new £5,000 short story prize in celebration of its fifth birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Prize Foundation has appointed former Fourth Estate associate publisher Minna Fry as its director of development. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story ‘Memories We Lost’. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK writer Russell Jones has been shortlisted for the $50,000 (£37,990) Half the World Global Literati Award for his unpublished YA novel The Talkers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three books from Penguin Random House have been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2016, alongside books from Canongate, Bloomsbury and John Murray. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lauded for work that exposes 'how violence, hatred and speechlessness can change people,' journalist and author Carolin Emcke's Friedenspreis honors her work "in an era in which political, religious and cultural conflicts often leave no room for dialogue.' The post The German Book Trade’s Peace... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Norwegian has been chosen as the language of the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa McInerney has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize 2016 for The Glorious Heresies (John Murray) following closely on the heels of her Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction win just two weeks ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the fact that he says, 'I don't consider myself a historical novelist at all,' Simon Mawer wins the £30,000 pound Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The post With Its ‘Heart in Scotland,’ the Walter Scott Prize Honors Simon Mawer appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jack Fuller won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at The Chicago Tribune and later became Tribune Publishing’s president. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novelist Alex Christofi from Dorset has won the £10,000 Betty Trask Prize at the Society of Authors annual Authors' Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by David Baddiel and Sue Hendra were amongst the winners of the first Laugh Out Loud Awards (The Lollies) for funny children’s books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon Mawer has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his 10th novel Tightrope (Little, Brown). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey has won Cross Sports Book of the Year, following her Cross International Autobiography of the Year win. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the eve of Independent Booksellers’ Week, the winners of the IBW Book Awards have been revealed, while authors have praised the work of independent booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A college professor and a university fellow have won the Wolfson History Prize, awarded £30,000 each. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Grace Suen, a student from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, has won this year’s Macmillan Prize for Illustration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize at the same time it is announced she will be embarking on a UK book tour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Poetry Book Society director, Chris Holifield, has been appointed by the T S Eliot Foundation to the role of director of the T S Eliot Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa McInerney has won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut The Glorious Heresies (John Murray). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]