Leopold Blue, a coming-of-age story set in South Africa, wins the 2015 Branford Boase Award for an outstanding debut children's novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and booksellers have enthusiastically welcomed the merger of the Man Booker International Prize and the Independent Foreign Prize for Fiction, saying it will create a prize with "a new stature", making "a good counterpoint" to the Man Booker itself. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker International Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize are to merge to create one annual award for a work of literary fiction translated into English. Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Man Booker Foundation, said at a press conference this morning (7th July) that the Man... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Zambia's Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and is to share her £10,000 prize money with her fellow shortlistees. Serpell won the award with short story "The Sack" from Africa39 (Bloomsbury). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2016, the new prize will transition to an annual award recognizing a work translated into English. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last month the finalists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced. Now we want to test little bookworms on what they know about New Zealand books for kids and their authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New Zealand Book Awards will return in 2016 with an annual fiction prize of $50,000, it has been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
An exploration of the landscape around a remote Cornish farmhouse, a study of the role of lemons in the Italian cultural landscape, and an account of life below deck on giant container ships are among the books shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year shortlist. Stanfords... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
With her prizewinning debut, Claire Fuller could be following in the footsteps of Ian Rankin and Hilary Mantel who found success with their later work – but only with the support of her publisherAs one of the judges for the Desmond Elliott prize for best debut novelist this year, I couldn’t help... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claire Fuller has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015 for her novel Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree). Our Endless Numbered Days was described by chair of the judges Louise Doughty as "both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Bloomsbury have teamed up to launch a poetry prize. The Poetry Prize 2015 is open to poems of any type, from sonnets to free verse to rap, that are a maximum of 16 lineslong. The competition costs £8 to enter a first poem, and £4 for any subsequent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has won the £3,000 PEN Ackerley Prize 2015 for his memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). The prize, the UK's only literary prize devoted to memoir and autobiography, had also shortlisted Other People's Countries by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
German author and Middle East expert, Navid Kermani, will receive the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his writing and political activism. The post Navid Kermani to Receive 2015 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shin Kyung-sook had earlier denied using material by Yukio Mishima, but has now apologised, saying ‘I can’t believe my own memory’Shin Kyung-sook, an internationally renowned South Korean novelist who won the $30,000 (£19,000) Man Asian literary prize four years ago, has apologised to her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Real-life historical adventures inspire both winners of this years CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway medals, Tanya Landman and William Grill. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Works of fiction and books published by independent presses dominate the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Writing. Big names on the list include Karl Ove Knausgaard and Marilynne Robinson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
British poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton has been awarded the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize. The annual prize was established in 2009 by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter to recognise to a British writer of outstanding literary merit, who, in the words of Pinter’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Spurling has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel set in imperial China, The Ten Thousand Things (Duckworth), a book which is said to have been rejected 44 times by publishers. Spurling beat off competition from Martin Amis, Helen Dunmore, Hermione... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel set in imperial China wins the £25,000 Water Scott Prize for Historical Fiction at the Borders Book Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish poetry publisher The Gallery Press has two collections shortlisted on the Forward Prize for Best Collection award. The Forward Prizes, now in their 24th year, today (8th June) announced the shortlists for the three annual awards, which celebrate established and emerging poets. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]