Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has triumphed at the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Awards. Piketty's book, a nearly 700-page exploration of economic processes that concentrate wealth and build inequalities, was chosen as the winner of the £30,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Haruki Murakami is the first Japanese author to win the Welt Literature Prize of 10,000 euros. Join our reading group to discuss Murakami's literary works. The post Haruki Murakami Receives Welt Literature Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North is among eight contenders for Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The prize, which comes with a £30,000 purse, was presented to Thomas Piketty’s editor, Harvard's Ian Malcolm, at a ceremony in London on November 11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the winner of the C$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced at a gala in Toronto last night, the spotlight was on a new writer, Sean Michaels, and his debut novel 'Us Conductors,' published by Random House Canada. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lord Browne of Madingley, chairman of the Tate Galleries and a former chief executive of BP, will lead the judging panel for Pushkin House’s 2015 Russian Book Prize. Now in its third year, the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, run in association with Waterstones, awards £5,000 to the best... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sheffield publisher Vertebrate Publishing has won the $4,000 Grand Prize at the 2014 Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada with John Porter’s biography of British climber Alex MacIntyre, One Day As A Tiger. Mountaineer and writer accepted the award at a ceremony held yesterday (6th November)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker-shortlisted Ali Smith, Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Eimear McBride, and Costa Book of the Year winner Nathan Filer are among the authors vying at the Specsavers National Book Awards this year. Presented in association with high street campaign Books Are My Bag, the awards... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Helen Macdonald wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is for Hawk, a memoir about how becoming a falconer helped her deal with grief. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Macdonald has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape), making it the first time a memoir has won the award. Author and historian Claire Tomalin, chair of the judging panel, said Macdonald had written a “book unlike any other”. Macdonald was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Roy Keane, Graham Norton and Cecilia Ahern are among the authors shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2014. Tóibín’s Nora Webster (Viking) is shortlisted for Eason Novel of the Year, alongside The Thrill of it All by Joseph O’Connor (Harvill... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oliver Jeffers, David Walliams and Malorie Blackman are some of the big-name authors on the shortlists for the 2015 Red House Children’s Book Awards. The shortlist is divided into three categories and in the youngest group - books for younger children - the nominations are Dragon Loves... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leicester-based writer Mahsuda Snaith has won the 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize for her work "The Art of Flood Survival". Snaith, announced as the winner of the £1,000 prize on Saturday (25th October), beat almost 2,500 other entrants from more than 60 countries to win the competition. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amy Mason has won £10,000 and a publishing deal by winning the Dundee International Book Prize. Mason's debut novel, The Other Ida, beat off competition from 400 other entries, and will now be published by Cargo Press. The prize has been running since 2000, organised by the city of Dundee and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novelist Amy Mason, who dropped out of school at 16 and took up writing at 25, wins the Dundee International Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri and Kamila Shamsie are among the 10 authors longlisted for the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scribe has acquired a novel by Lutz Seiler, titled Kruso, which was recently awarded the 2014 German Book Prize, dubbed Germany’s equivalent to the Man Booker Prize. Scribe acquired World English rights from Nora Mercurio at Suhrkamp Verlag at auction. Seiler is a poet and short-story... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Flanagan took the Man Booker Prize for his book 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' while works such as 'All the Light We Cannot See,' by Anthony Doerr and 'Age of Ambition,' by Evan Osnos made the cut for the National Book Award shortlists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Though this was the first year that Americans competed, the Man Booker Prize was awarded to an Australian, for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The post Australia’s Richard Flanagan Wins Man Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing novels like 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' by Richard Flanagan, which won the Man Booker Prize, helps keep memories alive. The post Publishing, Memory and the Man Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]