Does the Man Booker International Prize lose credibility by overlooking works in translation while favoring books originally written in English? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The judges of the Man International Booker Prize have done what recent Nobel Prize committees have refused to do: honor an American for "achievement in fiction on the world stage." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won this year's £10,000 Independent Foreign Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Submissions are now being accepted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, which is to be re-launched... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Orwell Book Prize for political writing is won by AT Williams for his book on Baha Mousa, while Marie Colvin is honoured with a posthumous award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Orwell Book Prize has been awarded to A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foyles head of marketing Miriam Robinson has won the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2013, with the judges... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book from Random House and Faber have won the £25,000 Wolfson History Prizes. Susan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Hensher's Scenes from an Early Life (Fourth Estate) has won the £10,000 2013... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A pair of Eastern European authors — Laszlo Krasznahorki and Nichita Stanescu — take home the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
"The Rumor" by Anushka Ravinshankar and "Kids of Kabul" by Deborah Ellis have won the 2013 South Asia Book Awards for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
After winning the highest honor in the literary world, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners have seen sales increases – but so far the numbers are pretty tiny. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anne Somerset’s biography Queen Anne has won the 2013 Elizabeth Longford Prize for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Mahy could be posthumously honoured this year with an award now named after her. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2013-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scottish indie publisher Sandstone Press has scored a nomination on the longlist for the Desmond... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A "daring" novel which explores the plight of foreign workers in Gulf countries has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Kwani? Manuscript Project, a new one-off literary prize for unpublished fiction from African... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Raja Shehadeh is in the running to win the Orwell Prize for a second time, with Random... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel is in contention for yet another award, with Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate) on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]