“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 ]
The National Book Award Finalists are here! The winners will be announced November 18, 2020, in a virtual ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-06 16:50:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize has issued a statement saying that eligibility for the prize extends to "all women" where a woman is defined as "a cis woman, a transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 04:11:34 UTC ]
Simply submitting your story to be read by someone who knows talent when they see it is important for so many reasonsWriting prizes are massively important for aspiring and emerging writers. I think they are vastly more important than literary prizes. So many aspiring writers don’t have access... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-03 07:00:18 UTC ]
Candice Carty-Williams, Nikesh Shukla and Ayisha Malik are among authors shortlisted for this year's inaugural Diverse Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-02 16:05:26 UTC ]
Today the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for its 2020 First Novel Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, recognizes the best debut fiction of the year, and it comes with $15,000; each finalist receives $1,000. Previous winners include De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Tommy Orange, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-01 15:05:06 UTC ]
The Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking has revealed his year's question, part of a global problem-solving competition that offers $100,000 (£77,000) and a Cambridge University Press book deal for the winning response. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 13:52:06 UTC ]
The announcement of this year's Booker Prize winner is being postponed for two days until 19th November to avoid clashing with the publication date of Barack Obama's memoirs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-29 16:18:43 UTC ]
The YA Book Prize, which aims to recognise the best Young Adult fiction from the UK and Ireland, has re-opened for submissions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-29 14:33:44 UTC ]
Within an hour of hearing that she had won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a top honor given to science fiction published in the UK, Namwali Serpell also heard the news that the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor would not be charged for her murder. “I received these two pieces of news about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-25 18:21:12 UTC ]
Autumn means changing leaves, apple-based baked goods, decorative gourds, pumpkin spice lattes—and an avalanche of literary award longlists. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the must-read National Book Award nominees you’re now realizing you didn’t read, why not base your TBR pile off of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-09-25 11:00:06 UTC ]
The T S Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, Irish writer and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson and novelist and short story writer Jon McGregor have been announced as judges for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 06:26:30 UTC ]
Eligible for books originally published in English or in translation, the FT-McKinsey program looks for work to 'stand the test of time.' The post UK and USA: Financial Times and McKinsey Announce a Business Book of the Year Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-23 20:22:39 UTC ]
Books from Penguin, Bloomsbury, Wildfire, Profile Books and Head of Zeus, on subjects including the Israel-Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspective and the "lost" decade of Oliver Cromwell's rule, have made the Cundill History Prize's 10-strong shortlist spotlighting "history that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-22 18:41:08 UTC ]
Faber is releasing the new paperback edition of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's 2020 International Booker Prize-winning novel The Discomfort of Evening today (23rd September), five months earlier than scheduled. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-22 14:54:22 UTC ]