The Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces six new translations from Arabic and offers translation grants for all its shortlisted titles. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Opens Translation Funding For All Shortlisted Works in 2021 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-17 17:14:34 UTC ]
The judging panel for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021, to be chaired by scholar Hermione Lee, has been unveiled. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 03:14:31 UTC ]
‘The Foundations and Transformations of Arabic Literary Theory' will examine Arabic literary theoretical frameworks, in June and October. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Arabic Conference With Columbia University appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-09 17:04:28 UTC ]
Illustrator Axel Scheffler is among the first in a selection of judges to be announced for Oscar's Book Prize 2021, seeking to find the best illustrated UK pre-school book of the year, with more to be revealed in the new year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 10:44:32 UTC ]
BBC Studios has optioned TV rights for The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury, winner of the Harvill Secker Crime Writing Competition in association with Bloody Scotland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 14:28:57 UTC ]
The poet, whose acceptance speech will also be released on Monday, will publish Winter Recipes from the Collective in 2021Nobel laureate Louise Glück is set to publish her first poetry collection in seven years in 2021 – her first since becoming the 16th female winner of the literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-07 11:00:36 UTC ]
Get to know about WORLD OF WONDERS, the 2020 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
Grigory Rodchenkov has won this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for his memoir The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin’s Secret Doping Empire (W H Allen). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 21:02:42 UTC ]
Blackwell's has revealed its contenders for its 2020 Book of the Year, featuring two titles published by indie presses Knights Of and Influx. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 18:12:11 UTC ]
Camilla Townsend has won the 2020 Cundill History Prize for her work on Aztec history, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 14:11:40 UTC ]
Doreen Cunningham has won £10,000 for her memoir Soundings: A Journey with Whales at this year's Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 05:13:41 UTC ]
Today, The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company announced the winner of its 2020 Business Book of the Year Award, which recognizes a work that provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.” The prize comes with £30,000 prize and each of the five... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 20:59:19 UTC ]
Sarah Frier's 'No Filter' takes the £30,000 Business Book of the Year honor, in a strong shortlist from the FT and McKinsey & Company. The post Sarah Frier Wins the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-01 20:59:13 UTC ]
Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has won the U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out runner-up Kathryn L. Smithies’s Introducing the Medieval Ass for the honor. No, it’s not autofiction: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path is an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 17:25:35 UTC ]
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell has been named Waterstones' Book of the Year 2020, claiming victory over the shortlist by "an overwhelming majority". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-01 02:51:45 UTC ]
News and Events Photo: Quarantine portrait. Tulsa, Oklahoma. March 22, 2020, by Joseph Rushmore. This photograph accompanied the publication of Rilla Askew's "Cataclysm" in the Summer 2020 issue of World Literature Today. The editors of World... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-11-30 21:07:51 UTC ]
More than 50 titles have been named to the 2020-2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award longlists so far, in the program's 15th year. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Longlists in Six Categories appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-30 20:12:15 UTC ]
A new literary competition that celebrates science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is offering the winner a worldwide publishing contract with Chicken House and a £10,000 royalty advance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 10:30:48 UTC ]
Pam Smy has been awarded the inaugural Invisible Prize for illustrators, run by Edinburgh-based illustrator support initiative Picture Hooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 07:49:04 UTC ]
Submissions for the YA Book Prize, which aims to recognise the best Young Adult fiction from the UK and Ireland, close tomorrow (Tuesday 1st December). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-29 15:41:56 UTC ]