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The winner of the 2015 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation, Allen Prowle, has withdrawn his entries and returned the prize money, amid claims of "blatant plagiarism".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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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Fitzcarraldo Editions has launched The Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, a new annual essay award for unpublished writers.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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]