So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It's a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by the National Book Foundation this week.So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It’s a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A pair of best-selling works by staff writers for The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear" and George Packer's "The Unwinding," were among 10 books chosen for the nonfiction long-list of the National Book Awards.Besides Mr. Wright's investigation of Scientology and Packer's bleak account... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize has extended its criteria and will from next year accept any novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards is announcing expanded lists of ten finalists for four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
News reports are saying American authors will be considered for the prestigious UK literary prize next year, while the Booker Prize organizers say these stories are 'incomplete' but haven't discounted the possibility. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kate DiCamillo and David Levithan were among the 10 authors who made the first-ever long-list of finalists for the National Book Awards, part of a new nominating process that prize organizers hope will lead to increased attention and sales.Ms. DiCamillo and Mr. Levithan were nominees in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nine of the ten poets on the longlist are receiving their first recognition from the National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards launched its first long-list with the 10 books in the running for the 2013 award for Young People's Literature on Monday.The National Book Awards launched its first long-list with the 10 books in the running for the 2013 award for Young People's Literature on Monday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Malcolm Mackay is named as the winner of this year's Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year for his novel How a Gunman Says Goodbye. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books including 'The Lowland' by Jhumpa Lahiri and 'We Need New Names' by NoViolet Bulawayo made the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize this year, and some are calling the shortened list of nominees the best in years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Kearns, the winner of the best newcomer award at the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 2013 German Book Prize range from historical fiction to explorations of contemporary love and a brutal future for planet Earth. Find out the winner on October 7 in Frankfurt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Favorites among year's six Booker Prize finalists — which "shows the English language novel to be a form of world literature" — are Jim Crace and Eleanor Catton. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following a controversial choice last year, FIL comes back with an august winner for it's $150k prize for literature: French poet, essayist and critic Yves Bonnefoy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize director Ion Trewin has said the award has discussed changing its entry... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A history of Judaism, a biography of Margaret Thatcher and a book about the importance of bees are all nominated for this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plenty of people have predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Care to place a bet? Ladbrokes announces its odds on which author will win. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late New York Times Reporter Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria last year, is among the winners of the 2013 Arab American Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel inspired by a seaport in the Scottish Highlands and a biography of a renowned potter scoop the UK's oldest literary awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage imprint Chatto & Windus has scored three nominations for the Guardian First Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]