Ruth Dickey, the executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is to take up her new post with the National Book Foundation on May 17. The post US National Book Awards Foundation Names Ruth Dickey As Executive Director appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-11 14:52:33 UTC ]
The Klaus Flugge Prize, awarded to the "most promising and exciting newcomer" in children’s picture book illustration, has longlisted 20 books from illustrators whose debuts span friendship, love, family, the natural world and tales of daring. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 05:20:34 UTC ]
The shortlist for this year's £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize has been revealed, featuring Costa winner Monique Roffey, poet Caleb Femi and a double selection for Irish indie Tramp Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 01:24:56 UTC ]
Jessica Au has been awarded the $10,000 2020 Novel Prize for her Tokyo-set second novel Cold Enough for Snow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-09 21:06:53 UTC ]
The leading award in German-language fiction opens its 2021 competition with the appointment of seven new jurors and €25,000 for the winner. The post German Book Prize Names Its 2021 Jury, Opens Submissions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-09 15:02:11 UTC ]
Books published by Walker, Nosy Crow and Egmont have been shortlisted for this year's Derby Children's Picture Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 17:10:34 UTC ]
Centuries of fascination for 'The One Thousand and One Nights' were examined by two winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award this weekend. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award and NYU Explore ‘The Nights’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-08 15:06:39 UTC ]
The shortlist has been announced for this year's Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-05 08:37:57 UTC ]
Peepal Tree is among the indie publishers to be longlisted for this year's Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-03 18:33:01 UTC ]
The Pontas Literary & Film Agency and author J J Bola are partnering to create a mentoring prize for unagented, unpublished, under-represented writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-02 23:50:57 UTC ]
The new award comes with £1,000 and is geared to writers from 'Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.' The post Barcelona’s Pontas Literary Agency Opens a Mentoring Prize for Authors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-02 20:26:50 UTC ]
The 28-category British Book Awards program has 41 jurors in place for the 2021 cycle, with an awards program on May 13. The post British Book Awards Name 2021 Jurors for 28 Prize Categories appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-01 20:15:39 UTC ]
Historian and Judith Herrin has won the £5,000 2020 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for her historical work Ravenna (Allen Lane). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-31 12:40:47 UTC ]
Comedian Sir Lenny Henry, television presenter Mel Giedroyc, broadcaster Anita Rani, Labour MP David Lammy and author, broadcaster and podcaster Frankie Bridge will join the judges panel for this year's British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-31 12:08:17 UTC ]
Books by David Lammy, Helen Lewis and The Secret Barrister have made the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-30 14:08:04 UTC ]
Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her “utterly original” sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story, published by independent Peepal Tree Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 22:02:30 UTC ]
Roffey's book, based on a Taino legend, is set in 1976 on the Caribbean island of Black Conch. Tessa Sheridan has won the Short Story Award. The post Monique Roffey Wins the UK’s Costa 2020 Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-26 21:18:00 UTC ]
Broadcaster James Naughtie will chair the 30th Forward Prizes jury where he will be joined by Leontia Flynn, Pascale Petit and Shivanee Ramlochan alongside critic Tristram Fane Saunders. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 18:12:12 UTC ]
Bhanu Kapil has won the 2020 T S Eliot Prize for her “radical and arresting” collection How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry), her first to be published in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-24 16:54:32 UTC ]
A record nine debut writers have made the longlist for the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, including Raven Leilani, Naoise Dolan and Gabriel Krauze. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 15:36:22 UTC ]