Indies Pitch Publishing and Floodlit Dreams are among the publishers featuring on this year's five-strong William Hill Sports Book of the Year shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 03:30:12 UTC ]
The Abu Dhabi-based Sheikh Zayed Book Award sees a 23-percent jump in entries activity, Egypt leading in its number of submissions. The post Record-Breaking Submissions Received by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-26 14:46:42 UTC ]
Caroline Bird has won the £10,000 Forward Prize for Best Collection with her “audacious” The Air Year (Carcanet). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-25 06:49:35 UTC ]
He fostered the careers of more than a dozen Nobel laureates, including Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-23 16:26:04 UTC ]
Nine writers have made the shortlist for the biennial Women Poets' Prize, hailed for their “ambitious, experimental and ground-breaking” work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 20:47:16 UTC ]
Six books will vie to win the 42nd Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 18:15:14 UTC ]
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 ]