Kaycee Hill, Marjorie Lotfi and Yvette Siegert have won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize for young or emerging Black and minority ethnic poets. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 17:18:52 UTC ]
8 books, ranging from memoir to pizza czar, history for young readers and lyrics by legends, are the finalists for B&N's Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
Narjas Zatat and Shirley Hottier have been named the first place winners of the Faber & Andlyn (FAB) Prize for new writers and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds, as the award celebrates its fifth anniversary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 11:33:27 UTC ]
Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (her translator from Russian) feature twice on this year's longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, while Fitzcarraldo Editions, which has had a work longlisted every year of the prize, has four titles nominated in 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 20:49:22 UTC ]
Michael Holding and Rob Burrow feature in the shortlist for this year's £30,000 prize for William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 16:44:38 UTC ]
'The perspective of Indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific oceans' give 'Waves Across the South' distinction, say British Academy jurors. The post Sujit Sivasundaram Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-27 11:40:47 UTC ]
Kazuo Ishiguro, Marcus Rashford and Paul McCartney are among the authors whose titles are shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 07:08:08 UTC ]
News and Events (c) Rama, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr NORMAN, OKLA. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday evening that Boubacar Boris Diop is the 27th... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-10-26 21:56:54 UTC ]
Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram's "truly powerful" book Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins) has won the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 09:16:59 UTC ]
Luke Kennard, Caleb Femi and Nicole Sealey have won the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-25 19:03:13 UTC ]
The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade has been awarded at midday on Sunday to the Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. The post In Frankfurt: Tsitsi Dangarembga Receives the German Peace Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-24 13:44:56 UTC ]
On the final trade-visitor day of Frankfurter Buchmesse, the UAE's Sheikh Zayed Book Award has several programming points to consider. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Today: Arabic and Children’s Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-22 07:59:44 UTC ]
Today, on what would have been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 92nd birthday, the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust announced a new annual prize in honor of the beloved writer: the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be awarded for the first time in 2022 and come with a $25,000 cash prize. […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-21 13:30:29 UTC ]
Calling Antje Rávik Strubel's book literature 'that opposes injustice and violence,' the German Book Prize 2021 jury honors 'Blaue Frau.' The post In Frankfurt: Antje Rávik Strubel Wins the 2021 German Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-19 00:06:56 UTC ]
This week, the winner of the Planeta Prize, a Spanish 1-million-euro literary award, was announced: Carmen Mola, a famously private crime thriller writer. All that was known about Mola, often referred to as Spain’s “Elena Ferrante,” is that she was a university professor in her mid-40s living in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-18 18:30:34 UTC ]
Carmen Mola, a female novelist who won a €1m Spanish literary prize last week, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-17 22:43:39 UTC ]
Patrick Radden Keefe, Cal Flyn and Lea Ypi are among the six shortlisted authors for this year's £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-15 21:01:43 UTC ]
Seán Hewitt has won the £5,000 Laurel Prize for nature and ecopoetry with Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-12 06:25:22 UTC ]
Michael Rosen’s "timely" poetry collection about migration, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is the winner of this year’s CLPE Children’s Poetry Award (CLiPPA). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 14:31:18 UTC ]
Abdulrazak Gurnah found out about his win over the phone but initially thought it was a cold caller. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2021-10-07 22:36:48 UTC ]