The late Manning Marable has won the Pulitzer Prize for history, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades, but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books is launching a £10,000 literary prize to be judged by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism Monday. Morris, 36, who joined the Globe staff in 2002, won the prize for a range of movie reviews and essays published in 2011. Among the pieces submitted with ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Miller's Costa Book of the Year-winning Pure (Sceptre) has been shortlisted for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonny Duddle, the concept artist for Aardman film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, is named overall winner of the prestigious Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cooking with Poo, a Thai cookbook penned by Bangkok resident Saiyuud Diwong and published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonny Duddle, a concept artist for the new Aardman Animation film "The Pirates! In An... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The longlist for the Orwell Prize for political writing has been announced, with late author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newspapers have until 4 May to submit an entry to the World Young Reader Prizes, the annual awards from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that recognize success in engaging the young. The awards in five categories - E ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association is calling for publishers to nominate titles for the Independent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
French publisher eToiles Editions, with an app that "breaks away from the page by page way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
South Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin has won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, becoming the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
DJ and ex-Catatonia frontwoman Cerys Matthews is to join the judging panel of the 2012 University... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Other National Book Critics Circle honorees include writer John Lewis Gaddis for 'George F. Kennan: An American Life' and Maya Jasanoff for 'Liberty's Exiles.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The under-the-radar author won for her collection "Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories."Reporting from New York -- The National Book Critics Circle gave its 2011 fiction prize to Edith Pearlman, an under-the-radar writer of short stories, at its annual awards ceremony Thursday evening at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Emma Donoghue has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 after making... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel banned by the Chinese government has made the longlist for the Independent Foreign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orange and Booker-shortlisted author Emma Donoghue ihas been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emerging authors and illustrators have made every category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards this year, alongside their better known counterparts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]