The Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize 2013 is calling for entries. The winner of the biennial prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hillary Mantel wins another book prize—the Costa this time—and the backlash has begun, raising the question: should book prize juries spread the love a little more? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel wins the prestigious literary prize the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Bring Up the Bodies. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel has won the Costa Book of the Year for her Man Booker-winning novel Bring Up the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curtis Brown has teamed up with Kobo to launch a short story competition, to be judged by author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
To mark its 50th anniversary the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, will award six new prizes for publishers at the "forefront of innovation" and "creative editorial choices." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indian writer Jeet Thayil has won the third DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, worth $50,000,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten finalists were chosen as finalists from among 150 submitted for the Man Booker Prize International Prize for fiction. The shortlist was revealed at India’s Jaipur Literary Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Salley Vickers and Chiome Okereke are among the authors shortlisted for the Costa Short Story... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quadrille has partnered with the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition to offer an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new £10,000 literary prize rewarding original fiction has been launched by Goldsmiths,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards are getting a rewrite.New rules announced Tuesday include a "long list" of 10 nominees to be offered for each of the four competitive categories before being narrowed to the traditional five finalists. And the pool of judges will be expanded beyond writers to include... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist includes books from Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, Turkey and India; Orhan Pamuk competes with four other finalists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books and Scholastic have picked up two nominations each in the shortlists for the 2013... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been announced in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's book awards time in the UK! The five Costa Book Awards were all won by women writers, while Queen Elizabeth’s New Years Honours List included several authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Bring Up The Bodies is named the best novel of 2012 at the Costa Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Patrick Gale and Andre Carl Van der Merwe have been named joint winners of the Green... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The organisers of new book award the Literature Prize announce it has found a sponsor and will hand out its first accolade in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Literature Prize, the book prize founded by Aitken Alexander m.d. and agent Andrew Kidd, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]