Writer and poet Derek Owusu is to chair the judging panel for the National Centre for Writing's (NCW) £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-20 01:09:43 UTC ]
The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has announced a new landmark partnership with The Literary Consultancy and revealed the judging line-up for 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 04:07:20 UTC ]
The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, which honors contributions to 'peace, humanity, and understanding,' has opened for 2022 nominations. The post The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Opens for 2022 Nominations appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-13 14:14:57 UTC ]
The 2022 Booker Prize judging panel will be chaired by writer and broadcaster Neil MacGregor and features academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari alongside historian Helen Castor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-11 23:48:04 UTC ]
Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize worth £25,000 for C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press), described as “a blazing book of rage and light". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-11 22:54:54 UTC ]
Fig Tree has scooped the "powerful and beautifully humane" debut novel by Mo Siewcharran Prize-winner Santanu Bhattacharya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 14:00:25 UTC ]
The Costa Book Awards program, in its 50th year, names winners in five categories: first novel, novel, biography, poetry, children's books. The post In London, Costa Book Awards Names Its Category Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-05 00:15:29 UTC ]
The Biographers’ Club has announced the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for 2021 featuring actress Eileen Atkins, Lea Ypi and Transworld publisher Alex Christofi among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-04 17:30:49 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has dominated the Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners, with two Viking authors among the victors—Caleb Azumah Nelson and John Preston—along with Fig Tree's Claire Fuller and Manjeet Mann, with only Bloodaxe Books' Hannah Lowe preventing a clean sweep. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-04 12:23:06 UTC ]
A new writing award, the Cheshire Novel Prize, launches featuring judges such as Juliet Mushens and feedback guaranteed for every entry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-30 17:30:13 UTC ]
The Women’s Prize and Good Housekeeping have unveiled their 10 most promising female authors under 35 including Candice Carty-Williams, Stacey Halls, Abigail Dean and Chibundu Onuzo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-30 17:01:54 UTC ]
Keri Hulme, the first New Zealander to win the Booker Prize, has died aged 74 after battling ongoing health conditions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-29 05:10:58 UTC ]
The power Ms. Hulme drew from her Maori heritage shone through in her work, especially in “The Bone People,” which won the literary prize in 1985. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-29 04:47:34 UTC ]
An interesting dispatch from prize world: as The Bookseller reported, a new international survey conducted by Nielsen Book shows publishers, writers, booksellers and media consider the Booker Prize the “most important” literary prize. The Booker’s status isn’t completely out of left field, but... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-23 20:28:47 UTC ]
BBC News journalist and broadcaster Reeta Chakrabarti is to chair the panel of judges selecting the Costa Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-20 21:51:05 UTC ]
Edmund de Waal, Nicole Krauss and Martin Puchner are among 13 authors longlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize with their "powerful expressions of the diversity of Jewish experience". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 22:46:16 UTC ]
Tanya Andrews has been appointed to the newly created role of Folio Academy manager for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 20:09:41 UTC ]
Leeor Ohayon has won the £1,000 V S Pritchett Short Story Prize for his "tender, moving" tale "Gahnun on Shabbat". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 00:36:37 UTC ]
Profile has acquired the Cundill History Prize-winning Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, a "gripping and immersive" work of history uncovering a little-known slave revolt, by Marjoleine Kars. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-13 00:06:45 UTC ]
Claudine Toutoungi has won the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections, with her "offbeat and utterly original" Two Tongues (Carcanet). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-10 17:23:47 UTC ]