Poet Alice Oswald has won the third £25,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. It is the first time... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books has more than doubled its prize fund this year.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
On September 16, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, in its 20th year, released the longlist for this year’s prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The prestigious UK writing prize will now be open to any works that are published in the UK and were written in English. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Award for nonfiction longlist screams "USA, USA..." with 8 of the 10 titles covering American history, biography, cultural analysis, music, and religion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 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 ]
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 ]
The Bodley Head and the Financial Times have launched their annual essay prize. The award will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]