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 ]
Author Nell Stevens will chair this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize judging panel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 04:32:47 UTC ]
More than half of the titles in the running for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 are published by independent presses, while the 20-strong longlist also features Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning debut Shuggie Bain (Picador). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 02:47:22 UTC ]
Newly accessible in five more languages than before, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award site now offers its information in seven languages. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Adds Five Languages to Its Site appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-19 19:24:20 UTC ]
The National Book Awards' new digital outreach series features a 12-event presentation of winners, shortlistees, and finalists, including international literature and translation. The post US National Book Award Program: Spring Season appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-18 19:01:19 UTC ]
Earlier this year, we learned of the founding of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first English-language literary award to celebrate excellence in fiction by women writers in the United States and Canada. And today, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction announced that it has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 17:54:45 UTC ]
Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 11:33:47 UTC ]
Three writers who work in literature and screenwriting are behind the shortlisted trio of works in the Costa honors' 2020 cycle. The post Costa Book Awards Names Its Three Short Story Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-13 22:04:22 UTC ]
Three biographies published by Penguin Random House, including ones of poet Sylvia Plath and Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, are competing on the five-strong shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 05:51:35 UTC ]
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession as been chosen as Dublin's Book of the Year for 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 11:23:53 UTC ]
Children's book A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll has been named as the Blackwell’s Book of the Year for 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 17:28:03 UTC ]
The five category winners of the 2020 Costa Book Awards are announced, with the 'book of the year' honor to come later this month. The post UK: The 49th Costa Book Awards Name Category Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-05 13:59:16 UTC ]
Indies dominate the Costa Book Awards 2020 category winners, with two Faber & Faber authors among the victors—Natasha Farrant and Ingrid Persaud—along with Monique Roffey, Lee Lawrence, and the late Eavan Boland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-04 11:53:28 UTC ]
Barry Lopez, who authored close to 20 books on natural history, including the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams (Vintage), has died at the age of 75. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-28 20:58:37 UTC ]
Kim Cattrall has rounded off the second series of the "Women's Prize Podcast", picking books by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood among her top titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 18:58:43 UTC ]