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 ]
His novels and short stories are populated with refugees from war, colonialism and historical injustice Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2021-10-07 16:46:03 UTC ]
The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with hybrid appearances at Coventry University and the Southbank Centre before the winner is announced at BBC Broadcasting House's Radio Theatre on the big night. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-07 15:34:41 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to the Tanzanian author whose English-language novels include “Paradise,” “By the Sea” and “Desertion.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-07 11:03:10 UTC ]
The U.K.-based English-language Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” He is the fifth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers speak of the profound effect the prize has had on Australia’s book industry in the decade since its establishmentOn International Women’s Day in 2011, a group of Australian women writers and editors appeared at a literary salon and spoke about their frustration at the male-dominated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-07 01:56:57 UTC ]
Debut authors Natasha Brown and Rebecca Watson are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, recognising the best in experimental fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-06 21:50:51 UTC ]
Literary agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop is launching the Queer Fiction Prize, with author Okechukwu Nzelu among the judges for the inaugural award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 18:48:23 UTC ]
Hanif Abdurraqib, Anthony Doerr, Ge Fei, and Lauren Groff are among this year's National Book Award finalists. The winners will be announced live on November 17 at the 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony, which will be held exclusively online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize Trust Discoveries writing development programme is returning this year in partnership with Audible and backed by Curtis Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-29 19:15:53 UTC ]
The six-strong shortlist for the £25,000 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize has been revealed, including two titles from PRH imprint The Bodley Head. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-28 22:52:51 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction has just announced its shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The seven titles were selected from a longlist of twenty-seven debut novels, all published in the US between January 1 to December 21. The prize, first established in 2006, celebrates the best debut fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:25:35 UTC ]
The four-strong shortlist for this year's Laurel Prize for nature and eco-poetry has been announced, with two nominations for Jonathan Cape titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-26 07:25:12 UTC ]
In July, the National Book Foundation announced that the 2021 National Book Awards Ceremony would be held in person, with proof of vaccination required for guests. Now, due to ongoing uncertainty related to the coronavirus, the ceremony has been moved back online. “Although we were cautiously... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-24 14:33:59 UTC ]
Issue-driven nonfiction brings cultural and science topics into the business context in the 16th Business Book of the Year Award shortlist. The post The 2021 Business Book of the Year Award Announces a Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-09-24 14:26:05 UTC ]