On November 17, author, comedian, and Tiny Reparations Books publisher Phoebe Robinson presided over the second virtual National Book Awards ceremony in a row and the first under the Foundation's new executive director, Ruth Dickey. Martín Espada and Jason Mott were among the night's winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Patrick Radden Keefe has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his "revelatory" book on the rise and fall of the Sackler dynasty Empire of Pain (Picador), which judges hailed as a "future classic". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 21:31:45 UTC ]
The An Post Irish Book Awards ceremony has been moved to an online only ceremony due to the worsening coronavirus rates in the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 13:49:06 UTC ]
Student Emmanuella Imoh has won the inaugural Lit in Colour Creative Student prize for her "bold and thought-provoking poem", told visually through a short video. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 11:03:29 UTC ]
Canongate has announced an 18-strong longlist for this year's Nan Shepherd Prize for underrepresented voices in nature writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-15 18:59:08 UTC ]
The new biennial BücherFrauen Literary Prize includes a €10,000 prize and is named for the Venetian-born poet and author Christine de Pizan. The post Germany’s BücherFrauen Honor Mely Kiyak With Their First ‘Christine’ Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-15 10:24:39 UTC ]
Authors including Elizabeth Day, June Sarpong and Dolly Alderton are among those supporting a new T-shirt initiative to spotlight iconic female writers, launched by the Women's Prize Trust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-14 18:47:39 UTC ]
Children's books by Maisie Chan, Lan Cook and Rashmi Sirdeshpande are on the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2022, in a line-up that focuses on climate change, diversity and spotting misinformation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 04:37:39 UTC ]
Isabel Waidner has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for their "mind-bending" novel Sterling Karat Gold, published by indie Peninsula Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 00:44:35 UTC ]
Now in its fifth award cycle, the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize names 16 books to its 2022 longlist, with a shortlist to come February 23. The post Aspen Institute Names Its 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-10 20:01:06 UTC ]
Author and journalist Mary Ann Sieghart will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for 2022, with fellow judges including writers Dorothy Koomson, Anita Sethi, Pandora Sykes and Lorraine Candy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 15:25:38 UTC ]
Debut author Jesse Sutanto has won the CWIP Prize for Published Comic Novel, for her "deliciously frantic comedy caper" Dial A for Aunties (HarperCollins), with Dolly Alderton coming runner-up. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 09:52:15 UTC ]
South African novelist Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Promise,' published by Europa Editions. The novel follows the lives of three white siblings brought together by a series of funerals that follow the trajectory of the history of post-apartheid South Africa. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize with The Promise (Chatto & Windus), hailed by judges as “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-03 11:06:30 UTC ]
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award reports a 76-percent rise in submissions of work by women, and a 47-percent jump in entries of men's work. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award: 3,000+ Submissions, a New Record appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-03 02:09:08 UTC ]
The submissions period for the second cycle of the still-new German Nonfiction Prize runs to November 19, as seven jurors are named. The post German Nonfiction Book Prize Names Its 2022 Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-02 12:10:32 UTC ]
The shortlists for the 2021 FutureBook Awards have been revealed, featuring the likes of BookBar, the Feminist Book Box, Bad Form Review and the Working Class Writers’ Festival as well as a strong showing for Penguin Random House across various categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-02 02:31:37 UTC ]
The 2021 shortlists have been revealed for the Staunch Prize’s unpublished flash fiction and short stories without violence to women, while the original book prize is on hold until 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 12:22:21 UTC ]
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers will award cash prizes again after more than a decade, with the rules also changing to allow authors to nominate their own books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 00:27:57 UTC ]
Criminal barrister Mohsin Zaidi and biographer Diana Souhami been announced the winners of the 2021 Polari Prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-31 03:47:55 UTC ]