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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Ahead of the Shanghai International Children's Book Fair, which runs November 13–15, the winners of the first Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award were announced today at the Baoshan International Folk Arts Exposition. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Iraq war veteran Phil Klay has been named the winner of the Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 for Redeployment, a short story collection dealing with the American experience of the Iraq War, published by Canongate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A former US Marine wins the biennial Warwick Prize for Writing for his book of short stories dealing with American experiences of the Iraq War. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 58-year-old author won the country's most prestigious award for fiction, worth C$100,000, for his novel 'Fifteen Dogs.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Ian McEwan and BBC journalist Kirsty Wark make the longlist for the world's richest literary prize, the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canadian historian Susan Pedersen's The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press) has won the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Biographers' Club awarded prizes to Alan Cumming, Francesca Wade and John Julius Norwich at a dinner held at the National Liberal Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following the closure of the Roald Dahl Prize last month, Scholastic will introduce 'a new series of awards for funny children’s books in the UK.' The post Scholastic Takes Over After the End of the Roald Dahl Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]