The Baillie Gifford Prize, founded in 1999 following the end of the NCR Book Award for Nonfiction, celebrates the best non-fiction writing in the English language of the year. The honor comes with £50,000, and each of the shortlisted authors will receive £1,000. Previous winners include Hallie... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 19:57:04 UTC ]
Craig Brown has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his “joyous” One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate), which judges said “reinvented the art of biography”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 18:12:59 UTC ]
Last week, Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain was announced this year’s Booker Prize winner. It’s no small feat for any writer, but what makes this win so spectacular is the fact that Shuggie Bain is a debut novel. (It’s only the fifth debut novel to win in the Booker’s 51-year-old history.) During... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 09:51:08 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two non-fiction picture books and two picture books by debut author and illustrator Ellan Rankin, winner of the 2020 Carmelite Picture Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 20:16:52 UTC ]
Earlier this morning, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) announced the winners of the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for nonfiction and fiction/poetry. The Award, one of the few major literary prizes from a public library system, comes with a $5,000 purse. Previous winners include... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-23 17:59:11 UTC ]
Sponsored by the National Book Committee, the National Book Awards honored writers in ten categories in 1974. In March, the National Book Committee announced the finalists. In poetry, the nominated books were Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich; From Snow and Rock, from Chaos, by Hayden... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-23 09:49:45 UTC ]
Scotland's National Book Awards will not go ahead this year and will be delayed until 2021 after a funding application to Creative Scotland was unsuccessful, its organisers have confirmed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 04:05:52 UTC ]
Publishers Nosy Crow and Pan Macmillan have been named winners of the FutureBooks Awards: Best of Lockdown, after the week-long virtual conference which culminated in the awards ceremony. The pair won alongside Bath-based bookshop Mr B’s Emporium, the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and academic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-20 02:37:06 UTC ]
One of four debut novelists among the six writers shortlisted this year, Stuart wins for 'Shuggie Bain,' also a National Book Award finalist. The post Douglas Stuart Wins the 2020 Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-19 20:23:21 UTC ]
'Shuggie Bain' by novelist Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize, making it only the second book by a Scottish writer to win the prize in the Booker's 51-year history. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Nibbies has won Event of the Year at this year's Professional Publishers Association's Independent Publisher Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 04:12:10 UTC ]
The nonfiction prize went to Les Payne and Tamara Payne for “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.” The crime novelist Walter Mosley received a lifetime achievement award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-19 02:32:00 UTC ]
During the first 30 years of the National Book Awards in the US, only three writers of colour won prizes; last night, at the (virtual) 71st instalment, almost every person who took home a book award was Black or Asian. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 00:06:52 UTC ]
Dust off your formal wear and break out the bubbly because the National Book Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars of the book world) are nearly upon us. Yes, in just a few short hours, five dumbstruck authors will be fêted, garlanded, and welcomed into the American literary pantheon. For those of you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 17:04:53 UTC ]
Apparently, this week is the Super Bowl for the book world (or at least the book world media). Which means you need to do two things to prepare: assemble your snacks (check) and place your bets. Six novels are up for the Booker Prize, the biggest literary prize in the UK, which comes complete... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 14:30:15 UTC ]
Douglas Stuart's Booker-shortlisted novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has been named Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 08:27:33 UTC ]
Barack Obama, the Duchess of Cornwall and Kazuo Ishiguro will be among the star speakers at this year's Booker Prize ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-12 16:38:03 UTC ]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been crowned the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun (HarperCollins). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 09:24:21 UTC ]
M John Harrison has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Gollancz), a genre-blurring tale of broken life in Brexit Britain hailed by judges as a “literary masterpiece”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 04:07:19 UTC ]
The Aspen Words Literary Prize is focused on authors whose work deals in cultural relevance and contemporary conditions. The post Aspen Words’ Issue-Driven Literary Prize: The 2021 Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-10 18:06:42 UTC ]