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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
There are six creative Wellingtonians among the finalists of the 2016 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, announced on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
It could be second time lucky for author Anne Enright as bookmakers William Hill have her as odds-on favourite to win the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction next week. The bookmaker has Irish author Enright to win The Baileys prize 5/2 for her sixth novel The Green Road (Vintage) about a family... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Crossan’s free verse novel One (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) has won The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sky Sports pundit Guillem Balague, former women’s UFC champion Ronda Rousey and former president of Formula One’s governing body Max Mosley were among the winners at the Cross Sports Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The ongoing war in Dafur, the Yorkshire Ripper murders and a dark and comical play which explores the life of a glamorous transsexual hooker are among the book themes on the Polari First Book Prize – described as the “strongest” in the prize’s history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 for The Invention of Russia (Atlantic Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book about the “exposure of greed and corruption in modern Russia” by Peter Pomerantsev has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hannah Rothschild and Paul Murray have won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction – the first time in the prize’s history it has been awarded to two people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]