Fifty nominees in 10 categories are up for the awards, and the winners will be revealed on April 18. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Toby Mundy, the founder and former c.e.o. of Atlantic Books, is to become the first director of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. Meanwhile submission deadlines for publishers will change to “accommodate the timelines and deadlines of the publishing calendar”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plum Johnson has won the C$25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s top literary awards for nonfiction for her memoir, 'They Left Us Everything.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year announces the shortlist for 2015. Vote now to help choose the winner! The post Diagram Prize For Oddest Book Title: Shortlist Announced appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet and playwright Tony Harrison has been awarded the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for literature, honouring his career. The prize was presented last night (26th February) at a ceremony at the British Library. Harrison, now 77, said in his acceptance speech that the award was an "enormous... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Witches, camels, nether regions and pavements are just some of the subjects covered by the shortlisted books on this year's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. The seven-strong shortlist celebrates the most peculiar titles published in the year, with the winner chosen by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigns promoting humorous safety tips for children, a book by astronaut Chris Hadfield and a guide to getting the style and attitude of Parisian women won big at the Book Marketing Society’s Best Campaign meeting for the Christmas season. The meeting was held at Simon & Schuster’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martin Amis, Sarah Waters and Jessie Burton have made the 15-strong longlist for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The longlist has been released for the first time following a 40% increase in entries this year. Amis is longlisted for his dark love story set in a Nazi... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of New York City's Festival Neue Literatur 2015 on February 19. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for this year's Children's Choice Book Awards have been announced, in seven categories, which young readers across the country will vote for online from Tuesday, March 17through Sunday, May 3. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atef Abu Saif, Jana Elhassan, Lina Huyan Elhassan, Shukri al-Mabkhout, Ahmed al-Madeeni and Hammour Ziada are the six authors shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The shortlisted was revealed by a judging panel chaired by Palestinian poet and writer, Mourid... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2015 Salon London Transmission Prize has been split between two winners this year– Margaret Heffernan and Julian Baggini. The winners were both given a case of vintage wine awarded at a Big Ideas Salon at Foyles flagship Charing Cross Road London bookshop tonight (12th February). The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers have come out on top in the shortlist for the 2015 Folio Prize for Fiction, with Faber and Granta getting three books each on the list. Faber’s three titles are All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, about sisters, suicide and how to carry on after grief; Family Life by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Discover the 20 longlisted contenders for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2015, including former children’s laureate Anthony Browne, Mini Grey, Jim Kay, Catherine Rayner, Shaun Tan and Chris Riddell (with two nominated titles on this year’s longlist)Find out about the 2015 Carnegie medal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stanfords is relaunching the Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize, doubling its prize money, and creating a new award for travel writing. From 2015, the renamed Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award will carry a prize fund of £5,000. The revamped awards will also include the Edward... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford’s Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain (Routledge) has won the top honour at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards. Academics Goodwin and Ford won the Political Book of the Year honour at the award ceremony in London last night... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape), winner of last year's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year Award. The book's triumph was announced this evening (Tuesday 27th January) at a ceremony in central London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton showed "bad form" by speaking out against the New Zealand Book Awards, its organiser says. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jhumpa Lahiri has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 for The Lowland, published in the UK by Bloomsbury. Lahiri was named the winner of the $50,000 prize at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival taking place in India this week. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is open to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roddy Doyle will judge the Gordon Burn Prize 2015, along with actress Maxine Peake and journalist Suzanne Moore. They will be will be joined on the judging panel by novelist and journalist Doug Johnstone and artist Gavin Turk. The £5,000 prize, launched in 2012 to celebrate innovation in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]