Malaysia's Tan Twan Eng won Asia’s most prestigious literary prize with The Garden of Evening Mists. The prize, in its 6th year, is changing the perception of Asian literature say authors, publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Society will sponsor the newly named Folio Prize, a literature award of £40,000 to honor the best English-language fiction published in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel, could be the first person to win all three major book prizes after being nominated for the Woman's Prize For Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Society has been announced as sponsor of the Literature Prize, the new award co-founded... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver are among the finalists for the $45,000 Women's Prize, known formerly as the Orange Prize, which released its longlist today. Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver are among the finalists for the $45,000 Women's Prize, known formerly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Multiple prize-winner Hilary Mantel is also in the running for this year's Women's Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Schoolchildren from across the country have chosen Tom Gates: Genius Ideas, Mostly by Liz Pichon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two books about the events of Bloody Sunday have been made joint winners of the Christopher Ewart... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom McCarthy and James Salter are among the winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. Tom McCarthy and James Salter are among the winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, announced Monday at Yale University's Beinecke Rare... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were awarded on Thursday. Among the winners was Ben Fountain's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" for fiction, a book we tipped for prizes in the middle of last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor and writer Rupert Everett has won the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography with his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller magazine will be giving out the award for the thirty-fifth year in a row, with competitors including 'Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop' and 'How To Sharpen Pencils.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 33rd L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced Thursday morning. Two authors -- Margaret Atwood and Kevin Starr -- will also receive special recognition. This post has been updated; see below for details. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Children's Books, Egmont and Little Tiger Press have each picked up two... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The writer of US comedy Beavis and Butt-head is among 18 authors shortlisted for this year's Waterstones children's book prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
One collection of short stories and four novels—including Jeet Thayyil’s Narcopolis, winner of the DSC Prize—have been shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The very funny Dave Barry joined us for a video chat from his home in Florida. During our conversation, he turned his laptop so that we could see his pool and his writing desk, where he once found a snake sitting on his can of Diet Coke. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Day Parliament Burned Down has been named political book of the year at the Political Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the first Cartoonist Studio Prizes. The winner in each of our two categories will be announced on March 1; each winner will receive $1,000 and, of course, eternal glory. The shortlists were selected... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suzy Lucas is to be prize administrator for the newly established Literature Prize.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]