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 ]
Get ready to celebrate: Here are the amazing 2021 winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the 105th year of the award! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-06-11 18:14:33 UTC ]
Louise Erdrich and Natalie Diaz took home Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and poetry, respectively, at this year's virtual ceremony on June 11, which honored five books spotlighting the lived experiences of people of color in the United States from multiple perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Santanu Battacharya has won Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2021, with "The Nicer One", hailed by judges as a "gut-punch of a piece". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-09 14:59:56 UTC ]
Sudhir Hazareesingh has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, with the award clinched for a second year in a row by an Allen Lane title. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-09 10:57:46 UTC ]
Author Paul Mendez is to judge this year's Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize, which returns this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 05:21:08 UTC ]
Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2021 for her "cultural significance" charting "the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled-free state". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 05:20:07 UTC ]
Growing American participation, record-breaking submissions, and the expansion of translation grants are among the highlights for 2021. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury and Granta have three titles each shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-28 23:46:28 UTC ]
A lost novelist, 'her whispering voice, fleeing depression,' led this Egyptian poet to one of the biggest literary prizes in the world. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winner Iman Mersal: ‘Reading the Past’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-05-25 18:35:10 UTC ]
The 15-year-old award program, says secretary-general Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, now has honored a total 100 laureates. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Streams Its 2021 Winners Ceremony appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-05-25 03:21:29 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has collaborated with the Jhalak Prize in its Books to Readers programme, which aims to boost sales and visibility for longlisted writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-25 00:26:21 UTC ]
Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates have won the Richard Jefferies Society & the White Horse Bookshop's Literary Prize for nature writing with their book Orchard: A Year in England's Eden (William Collins). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-24 15:30:01 UTC ]
News and Events Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent with World Literature Today’s commitment to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-05-20 16:07:11 UTC ]
Shola von Reinhold wins the award for small publishing houses with their novel LOTE, but financial reward split among 10 publishersThe Scottish author Shola von Reinhold has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for their “dazzling” queer debut novel LOTE. But the £20,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-05-19 12:17:35 UTC ]