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The National Books Critics Circle has just announced the seven finalists for the 2019 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book published in the last year. The winner will be announced on January 11th, 2020, but in the meantime, peruse the finalists at your leisure below, and feel free to get... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-06 19:00:27 UTC ]
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Podcasts like S-Town, Serial and Believed aren't just enthralling, they're also great examples of hard-hitting, in-depth reporting. With that in mind, the Pulitzer Prize Board is adding a new journalism prize category for audio reporting. Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2019-12-06 17:44:00 UTC ]
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The Pulitzer Prize Board today announces a new Journalism prize category for the 2020 prize cycle: Audio Reporting. “The renaissance Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-06 15:53:37 UTC ]
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Jane Bettany has won HQ and Gransnet's writing prize for unpublished women writers aged over 40. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 01:51:32 UTC ]
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Two members of the external Nobel literature prize committee have quit – one over the choice of Peter Handke as this year's winner and the other over the slow pace of reforms since the sexual assault scandal. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 10:30:14 UTC ]
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The shortlists for the Society of Authors’ 2019 Translation Prizes have been revealed, seeing 35 translated works from nine different languages put into the running for almost £20,000 in prizes. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 08:11:57 UTC ]
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Linda Grant, Dani Shapiro and Howard Jacobson are among the 12 writers longlisted for the 2020 Wingate Prize. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 08:00:18 UTC ]
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The six-strong shortlist for this year’s Tony Lothian Prize, which awards £2,000 to the best unpublished biography, have been announced. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 22:18:02 UTC ]
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A re-released classic hunting and trapping guide has snared the 41st edition of The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 11:06:09 UTC ]
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Eighty-eight-year-old Irish author Edna O’Brien has won the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature for having “broken down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond and moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 18:17:47 UTC ]
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Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, has said prizes like the Booker are for readers first and foremost, and that they should be treated as an investigation rather than an act of judgement shaping the canon. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 12:59:25 UTC ]
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The Charles Taylor Foundation, a charity organization that supports Canadian writers, gave a cheery explanation for why a literary prize it’s been co-sponsoring for two decades is coming to an end next year: they accomplished exactly what they’d set out to do. For almost 20 years, the Foundation... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-21 18:55:31 UTC ]
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The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize will be judged by Claire-Louise Bennett, Rachel Cusk, Niven Govinden and Ottessa Moshfegh in 2020, running in its third year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 15:02:31 UTC ]
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A tale of a squirrel's quest for friends, Cyril and Pat (Pan Macmilan) by Emily Gravett, has been crowned the inaugural winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize, which celebrates the best books for sharing with babies and children aged under five. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 04:31:22 UTC ]
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Ian Williams, winner of this year’s $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction, began his acceptance speech Monday night with an emotional tribute. “Margaret Atwood over there is the first book I bought with my own money at a bookstore in Brampton,” he told the audience.... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-19 20:30:03 UTC ]
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Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday) has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The book sees social historian Rubenhold reconstruct the murdered women's lives, sometimes from as little as a single hair, giving voice to... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 05:22:32 UTC ]
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Ian Williams has won the C$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious and richest award for fiction, for his debut novel, 'Reproduction,' published by Random House Canada. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian Williams has won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award for fiction, for his novel Reproduction. Continue reading at 'CBC'
[ CBC | 2019-11-19 03:04:37 UTC ]
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Malaysian-Chinese writer and editor Nina Mingya Powles has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for her submission Small Bodies of Water, which explores growing up between two different cultures. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 11:59:01 UTC ]
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Unusual for its focus on socially relevant fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize has six debuts among its 16 longlisted titles for 2020, is third year. The post Aspen Institute Names Its 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-11-18 06:30:13 UTC ]
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