Templar Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, will publish the Templar Illustration Prize-winning Bread, Buns and Biscuits by Paula White. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 15:37:27 UTC ]
News and Events Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-10-20 23:56:14 UTC ]
William Dalrymple, Vincent Brown and Camilla Townsend have been announced as the 2020 finalists for the $75,000 (£58,000) Cundill History Prize, the highest value non-fiction award in the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 15:27:01 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 13:08:29 UTC ]
HQ will publish the debut novel Ginger and Me from Elissa Soave, who won the inaugural Primadonna Prize in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 12:13:54 UTC ]
In the 2021 Orwell Prizes, writer, academic and broadcaster Delia Jarrett-Macauley is to chair the Political Fiction judging panel while Anand Menon, a professor at King's College London and director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative, chairs the judges for the Political Writing Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-18 12:33:56 UTC ]
The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with appearances via “Front Row”, social media and Guardian Live alongside readings from the Old Vic on the big night. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-16 04:23:16 UTC ]
Children's titles from Rob Biddulph, Kes Gray and Serena Patel are among the winners of Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards in partnership with BookTrust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 18:29:53 UTC ]
The UK literary prizes are still coming in hot! Today, the Baillie Gifford Prize announced its 2020 shortlist. The award, 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... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-15 16:30:50 UTC ]
The 10-book shortlist for this year's £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for poetry has been revealed, ranging across nine publishers and featuring two picks from Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 04:28:46 UTC ]
Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Polari Prizes, the UK’s only award celebrating literature that explores the LGBTQ+ experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 20:08:17 UTC ]
Xiaolu Guo and D B C Pierre are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, recognising the best in experimental fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 15:31:39 UTC ]
Today, Longwood University announced that Aleksander Hemon has been named the winner of the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. The prize is Longwood University’s premier literary award—the largest literary award of any Virginia college or university; it aims to honor “an underappreciated... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-13 17:31:47 UTC ]
The 2020 German Book Prize was awarded to Anne Weber for her 'breathtaking' and 'epic' biography of Anne Beaumanoir. The post German Book Prize 2020 Goes to Anne Weber appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-12 18:49:09 UTC ]
“The Perfect Nine” tells the tale of Gikuyu and Mumbi, progenitors of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-12 06:09:05 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück for her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-08 10:25:08 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." This story is developing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Faber associate publisher Louisa Joyner and publisher Alex Bowler have appealed to the Women's Prize to "revisit" its new rules around eligibility "to consider the lived experience of now excluded writers". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-07 14:48:15 UTC ]
Theoretical physicist and Princeton University Press author Roger Penrose has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for his work on black holes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-07 00:04:24 UTC ]
Erika A. Niedowski, a former Sun foreign correspondent and Moscow bureau chief who was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist and later worked for The Associated Press, died Friday of undetermined causes at Rhode Island Hospital two days before her 47th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2020-10-06 21:08:37 UTC ]