Samar Yazbek, whose latest book is an account of the Assad regime written inside Syria, will share the Pen Pinter prize with poet Carol Anne Duffy. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Individual donors including Christopher Foyle, Joanna Trollope, ebook site Bilbary, Cherie Blair... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new sponsorship deal for the Women's Prize for Fiction, previously the Orange Prize, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four independent presses have made the shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize, with the winner... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Allen Lane has dominated the shortlist for this year’s £10,000 Royal Society Winton... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comedian David Walliams has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for the third... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourteen titles have made this year's longlist for the £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Specsavers has succeeded Galaxy as the headline sponsor of the National Book Awards, signing a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Britain's oldest literary prize is to make a special award later this year for the best ever winner. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Willetts MP will chair the judges for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Irvine Welsh has hit out at the Man Booker Prize at the Edinburgh World Writers'... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has held talks with the organisers of the Women's Prize for Fiction with a view to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Legend Press and Bloomsbury both have two books on the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two novels that have received praise in the US – 'Bring Up the Bodies' by Hilary Mantel and 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce – made the cut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new sponsor for the Women's Prize for Fiction, up-to-now sponsored by Orange, will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish writer Belinda McKeon was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize yesterday (18th July)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Costa has launched a new award for a single, previously unpublished short story, with the winner... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roger Bootle has been announced this morning (5th July) as the winner of the £250,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nigerian author Rotimi Babatunde has won the 13th Caine Prize for African Writing. The writer was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social network Anobii is the new title sponsor of the Edinburgh International Book Festival's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]