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 ]
In a ceremony streamed live on Facebook, Souvankham Thammavongsa was awarded the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her collection of short stories 'How to Pronounce Knife.' It comes with a C$100,000 prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
A Canadian author of fiction will be awarded $100,000 in the comfort of their own home tonight as the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala goes virtual this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-11-09 17:43:21 UTC ]
The ALA isn't the only organization that honors the best children's and young adult books of the year. Check out these children's book awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-11-09 11:37:00 UTC ]
Jason Reynolds! The two-time National Book Award Finalist, and current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, will host the 71st National Book Awards on November 18, 2020. “To be at the forefront of ushering in the celebration of my peers would’ve been a gift at any point in my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-05 15:00:37 UTC ]
Richard Osman's debut crime novel The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has been named W H Smith's Book of the Year for 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 01:31:10 UTC ]
Listen to the audiobooks by this year's National Book Award 5 Under 35 honorees, all of which are women of color! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-11-03 11:30:00 UTC ]
Dr Camilla Pang has won the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize for her debut Explaining Humans (Viking), written as an instruction manual for a world she had difficulty understanding due to her Autism Spectrum Disorder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 02:40:20 UTC ]
We're examining the eligibility requirements of five major literary awards, specifically looking at their positions on citizenship. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-11-02 11:33:00 UTC ]
Dara McAnulty, Brit Bennett and Maggie O’Farrell are among the authors shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 title. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-02 04:03:38 UTC ]
The first winner of the Staunch Book Prize, Jock Serong, has been shortlisted again for the 2020 award, in a year that sees indie publishers well represented. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-01 23:27:55 UTC ]
The late French author Romain Gary is the only writer to have won France’s most prestigious literary award under two names: he received the Prix Goncourt for The Roots of Heaven (Les Racines du ciel; 1956) under his birth name and, more than 20 years later, “Émile Ajar” won the prize for The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-29 17:36:47 UTC ]
The shortlistees for the annual FutureBook Awards have been revealed, demonstrating the trade’s ingenuity and flexibility in response to the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 16:38:31 UTC ]
Looking to celebrate undiscovered authors and illustrators, Ehomebooks launches the International Children’s Picture Book Award. The post Vietnamese Publisher Ehomebooks Launches the International Children’s Picture Book Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-28 14:05:06 UTC ]
Hazel V Carby has won the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize, the 8th Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 17:56:20 UTC ]