Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the five print and digital winners for its third annual Literary Magazine Prizes. Since launching in 2018, the Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes seek to recognize, reward, and support publications that actively nurture writers who produce extraordinary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-16 12:00:53 UTC ]
The 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes were announced today and were given to 'Conjunctions,' 'Foglifter,' 'Kweli,' 'Nat. Brut,' and 'One Story.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has released Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body as a paperback edition this week, after it was announced the novel has made the Booker Prize shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 01:29:28 UTC ]
Eva Eland has won the Klaus Flugge Prize for most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-15 23:50:00 UTC ]
The six titles on the German Book Prize shortlist are said to 'demonstrate political urgency in a particularly clever manner.' The post The German Book Prize Names Its 2020 Shortlist of Novels appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-15 13:51:12 UTC ]
With no room for Hilary Mantel’s conclusion to her Wolf Hall trilogy, the six finalists also include four debutsHilary Mantel will not win a third Booker prize with the final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, after American writers made a near clean sweep of this year’s shortlist.With four... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-15 12:21:07 UTC ]
Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor have been shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize, in a selection packed with independent presses but featuring the notable absence of two-time winner Hilary Mantel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-15 08:26:08 UTC ]
Even for a prize that thrives on controversy, the omission of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light from the Booker shortlist today is a big shock. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-15 07:24:12 UTC ]
The Jhalak Prize, which annually awards the Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, has launched a new, second prize for books for children and young adults. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-15 07:13:10 UTC ]
Six titles made the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, of which four are debuts. The list is also notably diverse, with four female finalists and four titles coming from independent publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Three cheers for more exciting book news! Today, the Before Columbus Foundation announced the winners of the 41st-annual American Book Awards. The award, which has no categories or nominees, was created to recognize extraordinary literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-14 16:38:41 UTC ]
Swift’s novel is about young love and the little acts of chance and villainy that realign lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-09-14 10:34:15 UTC ]
#Merky Books has announced the second annual #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, a competition that aims to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 02:02:20 UTC ]
Dara McAnulty has become the youngest Baillie Gifford Prize longlisted author ever, joining previous winners Barbara Demick and Kate Summerscale in the running for this year's £50,000 non-fiction award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 02:50:25 UTC ]
Jacob P Avila has won this year's Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript, for his contemporary thriller Cave Diver. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-09 12:39:04 UTC ]
Maggie O'Farrell has won the Women's Prize for Fiction with her “exceptional” novel Hamnet (Tinder Press), inspired by the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-09 11:26:53 UTC ]
Carolyn Reidy, the late president and chief executive of Simon & Schuster, will receive the Literarian Award, the National Book Foundation announced today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-08 14:14:51 UTC ]
Teenage author Dara McAnulty has become what is reckoned to be the youngest ever winner of a major literary award after scooping the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing with Diary of a Young Naturalist (Little Toller). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-08 07:56:58 UTC ]
The five-strong shortlist for the £25,000 British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding sees works on the discoveries of 20th-century anthropologists side by side with studies on the legacies of Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 11:12:45 UTC ]
The Windham-Campbell Prizes will this year hold the annual autumn festival at Yale University, celebrating the work of the winners, as a hybrid virtual and print “festival”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-06 19:00:05 UTC ]