Angela Jackson has won the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, sponsored... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nosy Crow and Random House Children’s Publishers have three titles apiece on the Roald Dahl... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the £15,000 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry has been revealed, with publishers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcasters Sue MacGregor and Trevor Phillips and Robert McCrum, associate editor of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Superworm, Julia Donaldson's tale of a resourceful worm and The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey's novel about an alien invasion, are among the 10 books shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten books have been shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award, the only national... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spanish author Clara Sánchez has won the 2013 Planeta Prize for her novel El cielo ha vuelto, a book about the nature of our economic and political environment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 28-year-old novelist from New Zealand, the youngest ever to win the prize, addressed the critics who have approached her complex novel with trite assumptions about gender.Running on a mere 2½ hours of sleep and exactly 12 hours after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel “The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The contenders for the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature prizes are now narrowed down to five. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 2013 National Book Award have been announced anI, for the first time, a free ebook series with samples of all the finalists' work is available for download. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton wrote an 832-page murder mystery set in Catton's homeland, New Zealand. This is the last year that the Man Booker Prize will be open only to writers from the former British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, at the age of just 28, has become the younger ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Luminaries." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton took the 2013 Man Booker Prize for "The Luminaries" at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night.This post has been updated. Please see note at bottom for details. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, and for the first time, the National Book Foundation has offered a free ebook series with samples of the finalists' work.The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, and for the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canadian author Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Here, her publisher and literary agency react to the news at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Merit trumped politics this year when modest, retiring, universally admired Canadian author Alice Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for being "master of the short story" by Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro, who the Nobel committee called a "master of the contemporary short story." Last year, Slate book editor Dan Kois picked her for a prize and said her "work has evolved and grown in fascinating, boundary-shattering ways." The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Her Das Ungeheuer was honored as the year's best German-language novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]