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 ]
The shortlist has been revealed for the inaugural Jericho Prize for Children's Writing, a competition for unpublished and self-published Black British writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-10 17:14:09 UTC ]
Little A, the literary fiction and non-fiction imprint of Amazon Publishing, has acquired a "powerful" memoir by Paul Burston, founder of the Polari Prize, the UK’s first and largest LGBTQ+ book award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-09 09:18:56 UTC ]
Sarah Harkness has won the Tony Lothian Prize for her "sympathetic" biography proposal "Alexander Macmillan, Advocate for the Ignorant – The Life and Times of a Victorian Publisher". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 23:14:29 UTC ]
Here's what it's really like to judge a children's book award, including the surprising best part of the process (it's not the free books!) Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-08 11:33:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the Portico Prize for Literature has been revealed, featuring four debuts as well as titles from Andrew Hagan and Jenn Ashworth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-06 04:59:56 UTC ]
The Northern Writers’ Awards has opened for submissions with a chance to win a share of £40,000 in development opportunities as former winner Benjamin Myers (pictured) launches a new short story category. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 20:45:57 UTC ]
Katie Daynes' Why Do Things Die? (Usborne), illustrated by Christine Pym, has been announced as the overall winner of the School Library Association (SLA) Information Book Award for its “gentle, non-judgemental” tone on "a rare topic" for young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 10:32:58 UTC ]
With the 'book of the year' winner to be announced on February 1, the Costa Book Awards will name its 2021 winner in 2022. The post The United Kingdom’s Costa Book Awards Name Five Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-23 19:51:12 UTC ]
The Hay Festival and the Women's Prize are some of the literature organisations to have benefitted from the latest round of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund administered through Arts Council England. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-22 05:55:21 UTC ]
Kate Mosse and Sunny Singh have revealed the opposition facing their book prizes, with people at first accusing the Jhalak of "diluting literary merit". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-20 05:15:55 UTC ]
On Sunday night, both the 2020 and 2021 winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize accepted their awards in an in-person ceremony—including Chanel Miller, who won the 2020 Prize for nonfiction for her memoir Know My Name. Dayton, Ohio is the hometown of Brock Turner, who was convicted of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-19 18:22:33 UTC ]
Bad Form Review and Penguin Random House's Lit in Colour scheme have jointly won the Discover award at this year's FutureBook Awards ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-19 17:09:55 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble names their Book of the Year and a Speculative Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-11-18 14:57:13 UTC ]
Here are the 2021 winners of the National Book Award across five different categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-11-18 12:21:03 UTC ]