According to the National Book Foundation, the writer will be the first master of ceremonies to have published books in both the children's and adult fiction categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kevin Brooks' fictional diary of a kidnapped boy held hostage in a bunker wins 2014's Cilip Carnegie Medal as Jon Klassen's This is Not My Hat wins the Kate Greenaway Medal. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The award will be presented at a public event at the British Library on October 9, at which Rushdie will deliver an address. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie has been awarded the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize. The award will be presented... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK publishing industry’s first hackathon resulted in a host of fresh ideas in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two titles from The Bodley Head and a book by Stephen Hawking are on the longlist for the Royal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
At its annual awards ceremony, Children’s Books Ireland honored, among numerous others, Mary-Louise Fitzpatrick's "Hagwitch" as Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century’s The Nowhere Men: The Unknown Story of Football’s True Talent Spotters has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
When poetry pays...U.S. poet Brenda Hillman and Canadian Anne Carson each receive $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foyles has partnered with the Green Carnation Prize for LGBT writers. The two-year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Eimear McBride wins the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction with A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, the debut novel she spent nine years trying to get published. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jaron Lanier will receive the 2014 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his writing and advocacy about 'the dangers involved when human beings are reduced to digital categories.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Galley Beggar/Faber &... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book review magazine Kirkus Reviews has announced three $50,000 book prizes to be awarded for fiction, nonfiction and young adult literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Bloomsbury Children’s Books are launching a prize to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press has signed two prize-winning novels by German writers. Publisher Adam Freudenheim... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim has won the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his second... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former tennis player Jimmy Connors, publicists Karen Geary and Rebecca Mundy, and retailer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former home secretary Alan Johnson has won the Orwell Prize for Books with childhood memoir, This... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edward St Aubyn has won the fifteenth Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for his satire on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]