HarperCollins scooped two prizes at The FutureBook Awards, held at the end of The FutureBook Conference (4th December), but there were also wins for Hachette, Penguin Random House, Faber and BookTech Company of the Year, Reedsy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Doubleday) has been named as the WH Smith ‘Book of the Year’. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fitzcarraldo Editions has launched The Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, a new annual essay award for unpublished writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Benjamin Myers has won the £10,000 Portico Literature Prize 2015 for Fiction while Richard Benson won the £10,000 Portico Prize for non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A fable about friendship and loss by a debut author beats bestselling novels The Girl on the Train and Go Set a Watchman to be named Waterstones Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book The Fox and the Star by aPenguin cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith has beaten Harper Lee and Paula Hawkins to be crowned The Waterstones Book of the Year 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction has struck a new five-year sponsorship deal with Baillie Gifford and will seek to extend its reach to the US. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michel Faber has won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for The Book of Strange New Things (Hogarth). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew McMillan has become the first poet to win the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award with his “elegantly poised and intimate” collection of poems, Physical (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group is offering a student the chance to illustrate a picture book by Cressida Cowell, thanks to a new competition. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coates' 'Between the World and Me' and Johnson's 'Fortune Smiles' won the nonfiction and fiction awards, respectively, at this year's National Book Awards. Johnson's work is the second short story collection in two years to win the fiction prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2015 is David Almond for 'A Song for Ella Grey.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our photographer caught up with the authors (and their editors) who were nominated in the Young People's Literature category. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mexican author Fernando del Paso wins the Cervantes Prize, considered the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish language. The post Fernando del Paso is 6th Mexican to Win Cervantes Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monique Schwitter has won the 2015 Swiss Book Prize for her book, One in the Other. She will receive 30,000 Swiss francs in prize winnings. The post Monique Schwitter Wins Swiss Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Costa has revealed its shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards, featuring 12 women and eight men, with authors spanning an age range of 27–68 across its five award categories: novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children’s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winners of the 66th National Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at Cipriani in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday evening. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew McMillan’s series of “hymns to the male body”, Physical (Jonathan Cape), has become the second collection of poetry to be shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award since it was established in 1999. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2015 has been revealed, featuring a list that would "not have been produced by an algorithm,” the chain's m.d. James Daunt has said. The eight-strong selection nominated by Waterstones booksellers across the UK encompasses four novels, three... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kevin Barry's Beatlebone (Canongate) has been named the winner of the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize 2015 in recognition of “writing at its most novel”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]