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#Merky Books has crowned Jyoti Patel the winner of its New Writers’ Prize 2021, a competition aiming to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16 to 30 from the UK and Ireland.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 ]
The winners of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes administered by Yale University are Dionne Bran, Kate Briggs, Nathan Alan Davis, Renee Gladman, Vivian Gornick, Michael R. Jackson, Canisia Lubrin, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Zayed Award honors 15th-anniversary finalists in 'Arab Culture in Other Languages,' 'Publishing and Technology' and Translation. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists: ‘Arab Culture in Other Languages’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-03-22 01:31:14 UTC ]
This year's new 'page-turner' category is included in the 'book of the year' shortlists for the 'Nibbies,' for an awards event May 13. The post British Book Award Issues Its 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-03-21 19:47:44 UTC ]
The three shortlists announced today comprise nine titles selected from a total 39 longlisted works. Winners are to be named in May. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists: Literature, Children’s Literature, and Young Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-03-16 16:41:14 UTC ]
The New-York Historical Society award goes to a study of fractures in American society a year after Pearl Harbor, which resonates amid the pandemic today. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-15 16:00:06 UTC ]
Today, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, announced the longlist for its annual award, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. The winner... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-10 20:25:29 UTC ]
Edward Hogan has won the 2020/21 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize for his submission "Single Sit". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-09 05:38:51 UTC ]
Children's book blogger Fabia Turner has launched a competition for Black children's book writers, to be sponsored by inclusive indie publisher Knights Of. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 23:23:40 UTC ]
The Blue Peter Book Awards have been won this year by Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark (Knights Of) and Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley's A Day in the Life of a Poo, A Gnu and You (Buster Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 09:57:17 UTC ]
The awards recognize outstanding literary achievements in 12 categories, including the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, with winners to be announced April 16. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-02 15:00:14 UTC ]
National Book Tokens has launched a partnership with the Jhalak Prize, aiming to help promote the 2021 nominated titles among booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 00:58:20 UTC ]
The Syrian author Khalil Sweileh's 'Remorse Test,' winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature, is to be translated into Ukrainian by Nora-Druk Publishers. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Its First Translation Grant of 2021 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-25 15:56:10 UTC ]
The historian, author, university professor and former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Michael Ignatieff will chair the jury for the 2021 Cundill History Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 07:36:12 UTC ]
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain and The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, both published by Chatto & Windus, are among titles longlisted for this year's £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 15:59:07 UTC ]