The 10-year Earthshot Prize for climate-crisis response efforts will see its companion book published in September in the United Kingdom. The post The ‘Earthshot’ Prize Moves a Book Into Climate Crisis Channels appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-07-21 18:51:28 UTC ]
Hachette has announced the longlist of 12 writers in contention for the £2,500 Mo Siewcharran Prize, which was launched in 2019 to discover unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 23:42:18 UTC ]
Twenty-seven writers have been recognised at this year's annual Northern Writers’ Awards, sharing the £47,000 prize fund to enable their new writing in progress, across forms including prose, poetry and television. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 14:11:07 UTC ]
Guy Kennaway has won the 2021 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for his artworld satire The Accidental Collector (Mensch Publishing). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-07 10:32:42 UTC ]
Ali Smith has won the inaugural Pleasure of Reading Prize, in recognition of her body of work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 20:56:05 UTC ]
A K Blakemore has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "stunning" historical fiction novel The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:06:17 UTC ]
The author was repeatedly told that no one wanted to read fun books with disabled heroes. Now she has won the £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize for her debut, A Kind of SparkWhen Scottish author Elle McNicoll was first trying to enter the publishing world, she was repeatedly told that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-01 05:01:05 UTC ]
Today, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced that Joy Williams will receive the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, which honors an American writer whose body of work is distinguished for both its mastery and originality of thought and imagination. Williams, a previous... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-06-30 17:19:46 UTC ]
Elle McNicoll has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 for her debut novel A Kind of Spark (Knights Of). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 15:03:18 UTC ]
Kanya D’Almeida has been declared the overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for a "captivating" tale set in a Sri Lankan "sanctuary for the forsaken". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 08:05:28 UTC ]
Julia Donaldson, Sara Ogilvie, Lemn Sissay, Ingrid Persaud and Jasbinder Bilan have won prizes at the Indie Book Awards, held as part of Independent Bookshop Week's celebrations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-26 13:47:44 UTC ]
Ali Smith and Joshua Yaffa have won this year's £3,000 Orwell Prizes for Political Fiction and Political Writing respectively. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 03:14:57 UTC ]
Paul Mendez, Kae Tempest and Douglas Stuart are among the authors who have been longlisted for this year's Polari Prizes, the UK's dedicated awards for LGBTQ+ literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 10:50:56 UTC ]
Merlin Sheldrake, Anita Sethi and David Attenborough are among authors to be longlisted for the Wainwright Prizes this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 08:48:31 UTC ]
The Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga is to receive the 2021 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for her work that examines 'global questions of justice.' The post Zimbabwe’s Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins German Book Trade Peace Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-21 18:39:48 UTC ]
He unearthed nepotism and self-serving financial dealings in 1959 and later published best-selling biographies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-06-19 12:44:42 UTC ]
The program opens its 16th prize cycle with a call for submissions in all nine of its categories, with translation funding expanded. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award: A Call for 2022 Submissions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-15 18:39:45 UTC ]
News and Events Left column (top to bottom): Boris Boubacar Diop, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya; Middle left column: Michális Ganás, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jean-Pierre Balpe; Middle right column: Natalie Diaz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Micheline Aharonian... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-06-15 14:25:01 UTC ]
Among winners of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes are novelist Louise Erdrich, Malcolm X biographer Tamara Payne and the post-Reconstruction history "Wilmington's Lie." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-06-11 20:45:06 UTC ]
From reporting on the coronavirus pandemic to an investigation of China’s internment of Uyghurs, here’s the full list of winners and finalists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-06-11 20:41:33 UTC ]