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Songwriter and lyricist Bob Dylan was named the 109th laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 13, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Internet proved predictably opinionated upon learning that Bob Dylan had been chosen as the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Impress Books has awarded Magdalena McGuire the Impress Prize for New Writers 2016 for her novel, The Shape of Your Song. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Norway's Marta Eidsvåg has won the Harvill Secker's Young Translators’ Prize 2016. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Biographers' Club has revealed the shortlist for the 2016 Tony Lothian Prize, which awards £2,000 to the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books from Jonathan Cape and Faber and Faber, as well as new African literature publisher Cassava Republic, are on the shortlist for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, run by Goldsmiths University in association with the New Statesman. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, includes works by Emma Donoghue and Mona Awad. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winner of the Royal Society Book Prize, Andrea Wulf, is one of four British authors to have made the six-strong longlist for the 2016 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, is among the names on the 2016 longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Claudia Rankine was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship grant for her work that engages with contemporary American culture, particularly issues of race. Her most recent book, 2014’s “Citizen,” racked up stacks of awards for its searing take on the personal and political, including the death... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vahni Capildeo has won the 25th Forward Prize for Best Collection, bagging £15,000 award for her work Measure of Expatriation (Carcanet). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Get a taster of this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist with extracts from each of the six books. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While the award aims for ever greater inclusivity, one of the newer rules closes the competition to some of the very best writing in EnglishMan Booker 2016 shortlist announced: UK, Canadian and US authors dominateIn 2013, back when I was working for independent Dublin publisher The Lilliput... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Man Booker Prize shortlist of six titles is out today (September 13). In October, Frankfurt Book Fair will have three events in recognition of the prize's international influence. The post UK’s Man Booker Prize Shortlist of Six Titles Is Announced appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Brookmyre has won the £1,000 McIlvanney Prize, previously known as the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, presented at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is now accepting submissions for its inaugural prize. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrator Nicholas John Frith has won the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer in children’s picture book illustration. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors has taken over the administration of The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction from charity BookTrust. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First-time children’s novelist Elizabeth Ezra has won this year’s Kelpies Prize for new Scottish writing for children. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray is taking three of its "most exciting and lauded" debut writers, Andrew Michael Hurley, Lisa McInerney and Jessie Greengrass, on a nationwide tour of Waterstones bookshops in Bath, Liverpool and London this September. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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