The shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize for newcomers to children's picture book illustration has been announced, featuring a pair of Two Hoots titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 17:36:41 UTC ]
Collins, who revolutionized medicine by discovering a number of genes associated with diseases and authored 2006’s ‘The Language of God,’ has been named this year’s recipient of the Templeton Prize, which recognizes achievements related to science and spirituality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
News and Events The Editors of WLT From left to right, prose winner Jamie Lauer and writer Pía Barros, poetry winner Russell Karrick, poet Lucía Estrada. Jamie Lauer and Russell Karrick recently were named as the recipients of the third annual... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-05-18 13:29:17 UTC ]
The T S Eliot Foundation has announced the panel of judges for this year's poetry prize, which will be chaired by poet and author Lavinia Greenlaw. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-16 11:40:03 UTC ]
The pandemic and lockdown have affected the book industry from the fate of distributors to the closure of independent shops to the drop in individual book sales, and many literary prizes have this year postponed their announcements. But the Desmond Elliott Prize, for the first time under aegis... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-16 09:44:41 UTC ]
News and Events WLT Top row (left to right): Laurie Halse Anderson, Eric Gansworth, Meg Medina. Middle row: Linda Sue Park, Mitali Perkins, Jason Reynolds. Bottom row: Cynthia Leitich Smith, Laurel Snyder, Alex Wheatle Finalists for the 2021 NSK... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-05-14 16:39:10 UTC ]
Author Juno Dawson has won the Visionary Honours Book of the Year for Proud, published by Little Tiger Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-07 10:59:40 UTC ]
The publisher took home three 2020 Christian Book Awards, which were announced Tuesday during a live webcast, including the top Book of the Year award with ‘Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament' by Mark Vroegop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards! Grand Prize Steel Hand, Cold Heart by Rachel Menard (rachelmenard.com) Fantasy First Place Willow of Ashes by Ellie Raine (ellieraine.com) Honorable Mentions Fog & Mist: The Canens Chronicles,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2020-05-05 14:08:04 UTC ]
The pioneering Black journalist is revered for her reporting that exposed lynching as a white tool of political terror against Black people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2020-05-04 22:44:29 UTC ]
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners in 15 Journalism and seven Book, Drama and Music categories were announced on Monday, May 4 at Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-04 19:36:09 UTC ]
Poet Roger Robinson has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize for his “profoundly moving” A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press), which includes a sequence of poems reflecting on the Grenfell Tower fire. The annual prize rewards the best work of fiction, non-fiction or work of poetry that best... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 17:47:00 UTC ]
Writer and publisher Matthew Fitt has received the Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books Award in this year's Scottish Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-30 09:34:51 UTC ]
The shortlist for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced, and this year five out of the six books chosen focus on international subjects. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 17:00:04 UTC ]
The SZBA celebrates literary and cultural achievements in the Arab world. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller is to launch a series of weekly Twitter conversations with the authors shortlisted for this year's British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 18:15:25 UTC ]
Thea Lenarduzzi has won this year's Fitzcarraldo Editions, Mahler and LeWitt Studios Essay Prize, for her "family memoir and social history" proposal Dandelions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 06:21:34 UTC ]
The 12-strong longlist for this year's Spread the Word Life Writing Prize has been announced, with the prize open to UK writers who do not have an agent or have yet to publish a full-length work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 20:48:32 UTC ]
The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) shortlist has just been announced with a special video announcement on Twitter. The Women’s Prize is presented annually to a female author for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-21 18:34:56 UTC ]
The shortlist for this year's Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been announced, and features 20 entries from countries across the Commonwealth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 15:26:21 UTC ]