The National Book Foundation revealed the finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate' has won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Australian writer Richard Flanagan was awarded the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel, 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' at a ceremony at London's Guildhall on Tuesday evening. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel whose supporters include actor Mark Rylance and Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith wins a £5,000 award given annually to "fearless" writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Frenchman has written about the German occupation of his country during World War II. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gallimard and publishers around the world celebrate Patrick Modiano’s 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature during the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
French author Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was revealed Thursday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 13 winners of the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature took the stage at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
51-year-old poet Lutz Seiler has won the prestigious 2014 German Book Prize for his first novel, Kruso, which plays off the story of Robinson Crusoe. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcasters Kirsty Wark and Sally Magnusson are among the authors shortlisted for the prestigious Saltire literary prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book review journal Kirkus Reviews is awarding prizes for the best fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' books for the first time this year. Here's the full list of nominees. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kei Miller has won The Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Bill Bryson will chair the judging panel for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015. Bryson will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller is to launch the first ever prize for Young Adult books in the UK and Ireland.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner will be announced at a dinner ceremony on November 11 in London, and will receive £30,000, with each shortlisted author receiving £10,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK mountaineering literature publisher Vertebrate Publishing has three titles chosen as category... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Works that were nominated include 'The Innovators' by Walter Isaacson and 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?' by Roz Chast for the nonfiction prize as well as 'All the Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr and 'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel for the fiction award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The list of 10 finalists includes a previous National Book Award winner, two finalists for the award, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and two first time authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The founder of Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize announced yesterday that the prize purse will double, to C$140,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Children’s has acquired the rights to Dave Pigeon by Swapna Haddow, the winner of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]