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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]