Today, philisopher Theodore Zeldin is revealed as the winner of the Transmission Prize for his collection of "conversational essays" The Hidden Pleasures of Life. The reason? Not so much the quality of Zeldin's prose or the breadth of his research, but the power of the book to spread ideas by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Acclaimed art historian and writer Iain Pears is chairing the judging panel for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize 2016. He will be joined by journalist and c.e.o. of website The Pool, Sam Baker, and the literary editor of the Independent on Sunday, Katy Guest. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Harry Potter author will be presented the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service award May 16 at the literary and human rights group's annual gala in New York. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, published by Macmillan Children's Books, has been crowned the winner of the £30,000 2015 Costa Book of the Year: the first children's book to claim the prize in more than a decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Victorian murder mystery The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge is named Costa Book of the Year - only the second children's novel to win in the prize's history. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New picture book prize will recognise exciting newcomersKlaus Flugge, the publisher who launched the careers of some of our best-loved picture book illustrators, from Quentin Blake and Chris Riddell to David McKee, Tony Ross, Michael Foreman and Emma Chichester Clark, is launching his own book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Costa Book of the Year is announced on January 26th. Nick Higham spoke to each of the shortlisted authors, including Andrea Wulf, winner of the biography prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and critic Blake Morrison is to chair this year’s Goldsmiths Prize – the £10,000 award created by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the New Statesman, to reward “boldly original fiction”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anuradha Roy has been awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 for her "stark and unflinching novel", Sleeping on Jupiter (MacLehose Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Mother’s Story, the “gripping and heart-wrenching novel” from Amanda Prowse about a young mother struggling to cope with postnatal depression, has won Sainsbury’s Entertainment on Demand’s ebook of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Howe has won the £20,000 T S Eliot Prize for her debut collection Loop of Jade – the first time a debut has won the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the fourth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize! Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 30-name longlist for the prestigious Grand Prix d’Angoulême honoring comic book artists in France, included no women, prompting a burgeoning boycott The post No Women for Comics Prize Incites Fury in France appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
After winning France’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt, early in November, "Compass" by Mathias Enard moved up to the third spot in the country’s fiction bestseller list at the end of the month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer James Heneage, founder of the Ottakar’s chain of bookshops, will chair the final judging panel of the 2015 Costa Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the 2015 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation, Allen Prowle, has withdrawn his entries and returned the prize money, amid claims of "blatant plagiarism". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
From its humble beginnings as a project launched by an "about-to-be-fired editor" in 1974, the annual prize for the best in small press publishing has come quite a long way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Bill Bryson, Paula Hawkins and John Green are among the shortlist for Sainsbury’s ebook of the year 2015 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marlon James has won the Green Carnation Prize, awarded to LGBT writers, for A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
After being turned down by ‘every major publisher in London’ for his Portico winning novel Beastings, the author says landing the £10,000 prize ‘felt like a vindication’ Benjamin Myers, who has beaten Alan Garner to win the £10,000 Portico prize for literature for his novel Beastings, has spoken... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]