Women-only literary prizes have been created in both Canada and Australia to help balance the attention given to work by male authors vs. female authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The awarding of this year's $150,000 FIL literature prize to Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique, an accused plagiarist, has divided writers and critics across Latin America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcaster Simon Mayo is longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal literary award for his first novel, Itch. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Orchard Books and Jonathan Cape have won this year's Roald Dahl Funny Prizes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Rosalind Prize for Fiction – named for Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' heroine – follows awards like Australia's women-only Stella Prize and the U.K.'s Orange Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The short list for the 1962 National Book Award in fiction was remarkable, including a number of works today regarded as classics, like Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Yet the prize went to an obscure first novel by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press title Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power has won the Financial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Members of the public have voted Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Epubli, the Holtzbrinck-owned German self-publishing platform, reflects on its methods and motivations for running a book prize suitable for the 21st century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel translated from French is among the six titles shortlisted for the inaugural... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Australia's first major literary prize for women's writing, the Stella Prize, said to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Group, which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize, has withdrawn its support from the Man Asian Literary Prize, which will be unable to go on after this year if another sponsor isn't found. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Asian Literary Prize is on the lookout for a new sponsor as Man Group plc, also the sponsor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcaster, critic and writer Mark Lawson is returning for a second year to chair the judging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
How to Be A Woman author Caitlin Moran is to join the judging panel for the 2013 Blue Peter Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carrie Arcos, an L.A. mom whose first novel, 'Out of Reach,' is a young adult literature finalist, is in the company of Robert A. Caro, Junot Diaz and more.Carrie Arcos was mystified when she received an email from the National Book Foundation instructing her to call its office. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, and Katherine Boo all made the cut for final consideration for the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Junot Díaz, who was recently named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, is among the National Book Awards fiction finalists for his short-story collection, "This Is How You Lose Her." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book that has moved me most in the past year is Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It’s the fictional story of August Pullman, a 10-year-old with a very different-looking face—the result of a chromosomal abnormality and an illness—and his journey from the nest of homeschooling to the wilds of middle... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]