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 ]
The finalists for the 2013 Thurber Prize for American Humor include Shalom Auslander for his darkly funny novel "Hope, A Tragedy."The finalists for the 2013 Thurber Prize for American Humor include Shalom Auslander for his darkly funny novel "Hope, A Tragedy." But all is not grim: The other... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The £10,000 Commonwealth Book Prize will no longer be awarded. The organisation responsible... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
While some books on this year's Man Booker prize long list have gotten buzz here in the US, none of them compare (so far) with the success of last year's winner, Hilary Mantel's 'Bring Up the Bodies.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2013 longlist of fiction for the Man Booker Prize will surprise and intrigue in equal measure. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner on October 15. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Dave Shelton and editor David Fickling win this year's Branford Boase Award, with Shelton's illustrated tale A Boy and a Bear in a Boat. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers, a novel written entirely in verse, wins the annual Desmond Elliott Prize for best debut novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has announced the shortlist for the 2013 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir, given each... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Gardner has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for "Maggot Moon;" Levi Pinfold won the Kate Greenaway Medal, which awards excellence in illustration, for his picture book "Black Dog." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]