The International Booker Prize has revealed its judging panel for next year's award, to be chaired by cultural historian and novelist Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-06 15:40:24 UTC ]
A quarter of a century after the Women’s Prize for Fiction launched, co-founder Kate Mosse looks at how it has helped to change the publishing landscape and looks ahead to its virtual ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-04 15:39:23 UTC ]
Andrew James Grieg, Francine Toon and Doug Johnstone have made the final four in the running for Bloody Scotland's McIlvanney Prize, with Johnstone reaching the finals for the third time in five years for A Dark Matter (Orenda). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-31 21:19:36 UTC ]
The Singapore Literature Prize program honors work in the four official languages of the island nation: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. The post Singapore Book Council Names its 2020 Literature Prize Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-31 14:19:11 UTC ]
Akhtar has crafted a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-31 10:55:09 UTC ]
A book written in a child's voice wins the 2020 International Booker Prize, its author from a devoutly religious Dutch farming family. The post Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-26 16:17:28 UTC ]
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. It comes with a whopping £50,000—shared equally between the author and translator. This year, the judges read 124 books in 30 languages. In a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-26 16:02:37 UTC ]
The Discomfort of Evening (Faber) by 29-year-old Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison, has won the £50,000 International Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-26 04:53:40 UTC ]
Colin Simms, Pascale Petit and Karen McCarthy Woolf have been shortlisted for the inaugural Laurel Prize, an ecopoetry award funded by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 20:46:45 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction is holding its first ever online festival, featuring three evenings of interviews with shortlisted authors, readings, behind-the-scenes content and live Q&As. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 00:13:53 UTC ]
Lucy Ellmann has won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction with her epic stream of consciousness novel Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar), while George Szirtes has taken the biography award for The Photographer at Sixteen (MacLehose). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-21 03:12:44 UTC ]
Alison Light has won this year's £3,000 PEN Ackerley Prize 2020 for her memoir A Radical Romance (Fig Tree). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-19 12:48:11 UTC ]
Emma Whipday and Oliver Morgan have jointly won this year's £3,000 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-19 12:31:57 UTC ]
'A diverse range of themes' and experimentation with form are reflected in the 2020 longlist announced by the jury of the German Book Prize. The post German Book Prize Jury Names 20 Novels to Its 2020 Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-18 12:59:15 UTC ]
Novelists including Candice Carty-Williams, Beth O'Leary and Jeanette Winterson are in the running for the Comedy Women in Print Prize (CWIP). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-16 13:06:20 UTC ]
The 2020 Singapore Book Awards include three newly added digital-publishing categories including audiobook, ebook, and digital marketing. The post Singapore Book Awards 2020: A Dessert Guide Wins Book of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-13 16:08:03 UTC ]
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award's Dr. Ali Bin Tamim announces a restructuring and new members for the program's scientific committee. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names New Scientific Committee Members appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-12 15:14:38 UTC ]
In collaboration with the Women's Prize for Fiction, sponsor Baileys is re-releasing free e-books of classic works using the real names of female writers who originally published under male pseudonyms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-12 02:14:44 UTC ]
Viking has signed an “epic” biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, drawing on three decades of author interviews to rewrite much of the known narrative. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-02 21:06:02 UTC ]
Books by Sara Collins, Okechukwu Nzelu and Dustin Lance Black and Kirsty Logan have been shortlisted for this year's Polari Prizes, celebrating LGBTQ+ literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-30 23:37:08 UTC ]