A 'co-authored' novel made a respectable showing in a Japanese award designed for Artificial Intelligence and human collaboration. The post In Japan, Novel by Artificial Intelligence and Humans Vies for Literary Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles by William Boyd and Patrick Gale have been named on the 2016 Walter Scott Prize shortlist in an “exceptional year” for historical fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Penguin Random House, Oneworld, Bloomsbury and Transworld are in contention for the 2016 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize which honours the funniest novel of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Winners of the 2016 Leipzig Book Fair Prize were announced from a pool of over 400 new titles and a shortlist dominated, once again, by men. The post Leipzig Book Fair Prize: Where Are the Women? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marina Lewycka, Paul Murray and John O'Farrell are among the authors vying for an award celebrating the year's funniest novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Granta's Max Porter, Sunjeev Sahota and Andrew McMillan have been shortlisted for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author David Solomons has won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2016 for his novel My Brother is a Superhero (Nosy Crow). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book about the career of a vaudeville trio wins a prize for having the oddest book title of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A biography of a musical hall act has beaten an academic treatise on the human posterior in the closest race ever for The Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Screenwriter David Solomons has won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016 with his debut book, about an 11-year-old boy obsessed with comics Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cathy Rentzenbrink and Stephen Silberman are among six shortlisted authors for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize, awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction whose central theme "engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers Bloomsbury Children’s and David Fickling Books are leading the shortlist for this year’s Bookseller’s YA Book Prize, run in association with book printer Clays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Lionel Shriver has said literary prizes just for women are "problematic", while calling International Women's Day "creepy" at an event to mark the occasion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 has been revealed, including two Nobel Prize winners, two previous finalists and two debut authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s Books Ireland has revealed the shortlist for the 2016 Book of the Year Award, with Oliver Jeffers, John Boyne and Louise O’Neill all in the running. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Echoing a famous Woody Allen line, a French literary prize jumps right past the opening of the book and over to page 112 in a bid to find the best work. The post Prize Pivot: France’s ‘Judge it on Page 112’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Syrian author Samar Yazbek has made the Orwell Prize longlist for The Crossing, which tells of the journalist’s attempts to get back into her country after being exiled by president Bashar al-Assad. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/baileys-renews-women-s-prize-fiction-sponsorship-323395Kate Atkinson and Hanya Yanagihara are among the 20 longlisted authors for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, announced today. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Wellington author's first book has earned him a place in the finals of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, as the revamped book awards return after a year's hiatus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera are among the finalists in the significantly re-jigged national book awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]