James McBride won the National Book Award for fiction for his novel set during the Civil War, while George Packer picked up the non-fiction award for his examination of contemporary America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards suggest that books are where grown-ups go when they want to use all of their minds and hearts, says Salon's Laura Miller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
As tonight's announcement approaches, buzz is building over such nominees as Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear' and Thomas Pynchon's 'Bleeding Edge.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
McBride's The Good Lord Bird was a surprise winner of the prestigious award which honours works by US authors published over the past year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Good Lord Bird." George Packer won the nonfiction award for "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America."James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for “The Good Lord Bird,” a satirical account of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frances Lincoln has launched a new prize for British nature and nature travel writing, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Bantam Press) has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Winner of the Nobel Literature prize and author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction, and poetry, including 'The Golden Notebook,' British author Doris Lessing died Sunday at her home in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is nominated for the best popular fiction prize at the National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94.Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Metropolitan Books publisher Sara Bershtel will receive the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers Prize for her contributions to German literature in the USA. The prize is part of NYC's Festival Neue Literatur. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novelist who spent nine years trying to get her first book published is rewarded for her persistence with a £10,000 literary prize for original fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne has won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Award with an interactive flap book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
American author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize with Battleborn, a collection... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The prize fund for the Wellcome Book Prize has been increased to £30,000. This marks a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Italian artist Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike (4th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A graphic novel about a man's beard is up against works by Booker winner Julian Barnes and best-selling author Kate Atkinson for the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the UK's leading award for non-fiction books, the Samuel Johnson Prize, will be announced next week, here Nick Higham speaks to nominated author Dave Goulson Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edinburgh author Angela Jackson is named the winner of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]