ECPA has named its 2021 Christian Book Awards-winning books and audio, a slate that highlights reconciliation, inspiration, and consolation in turbulent times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
In music and commentary, the Jerusalem International Book Forum has opened its interim online program, Barnes to speak in Israel next year. The post Israel’s Jerusalem Prize Goes to England’s Julian Barnes appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-05-03 17:20:10 UTC ]
Independent publisher Joffe Books is partnering with author Dorothy Koomson and literary agent Susan Yearwood to launch a writing prize for unagented crime writers of colour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-30 23:20:48 UTC ]
Short Books will publisher Nobel laureate Dr Denis Mukwege's The Power of Women in autumn 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-23 21:58:09 UTC ]
The shortlist for the International Booker Prize, an award for the best translated work of fiction, includes two books each translated from French and Spanish, and one each from Russian and Danish. The winner will be announced June 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
The 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners come from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Lebanon. The post UAE: Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Its 2021 Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-22 14:03:56 UTC ]
In its fourth year, the issue-driven Aspen Words Prize goes to fiction based in the Native American struggle for tribal self-determination. The post Louise Erdrich Wins the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-22 02:23:20 UTC ]
Allen Lane has two titles shortlisted for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize, which celebrates excellence in research and historical writing combined with readability for a wider audience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-21 02:05:49 UTC ]
The Zayed Award honors finalists in ‘he Development of Nations' and criticism from Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Tunisia. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists: ‘Development of Nations’ and Criticism appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-19 04:47:40 UTC ]
The 41st annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded in a livestreamed virtual ceremony last Friday. The awards are presented in 12 categories; 56 books were shortlisted overall. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Deesha Philyaw, Victoria Chang and Isabel Wilkerson are among the winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes, announced Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-17 01:06:54 UTC ]
The organizers of at least five British awards received emails asking them to transfer prize money to a PayPal account. One of them paid out. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-16 17:53:34 UTC ]
The 26th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is going virtual again this year. The event kicks off April 17 at 10 a.m. Here's how to watch. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-16 12:00:30 UTC ]
Monique Roffey, Adam Mars-Jones and James Boyce are among authors who have been longlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-15 16:24:20 UTC ]
The Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, run jointly by UK indie Can of Worms and New York-based Leapfrog Press, is to split into adult fiction and young adult fiction categories this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-15 13:28:10 UTC ]
Titles from Dialogue Books and Granta have made the longlists for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-10 00:25:15 UTC ]
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative names two winners for 2021, both translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena. The post The ‘GLLI’ Translated YA Book Prize Announces 2021 Brazilian Co-Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-07 07:20:38 UTC ]
Last year, when New York City was the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in America, Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson decided to create a new annual award, the Gotham Book Prize, as part of an effort to “honor New York City and support the novelists who best captured the spirit of our city,” as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-06 13:00:34 UTC ]
#Merky Books has crowned Jyoti Patel the winner of its New Writers’ Prize 2021, a competition aiming to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16 to 30 from the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-01 04:31:20 UTC ]
This year's longlist for the U.K.'s International Booker Prize, an award for the best work of translated fiction, includes books from 11 languages and 12 countries. The prize offers £50,000, split evenly between author and translator. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]