The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards, among the most esteemed and lucrative literary prizes in the Arab world, recognized winners across seven categories today. This year marks the 14th edition of the awards, each of which comes with a cash prize of $204,000. These awards acknowledge literary and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-08 15:14:35 UTC ]
The winners of the lucrative 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award have been announced, with literary UK Banipal Magazine winning the publishing and technology category. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 05:29:50 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2020 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020, Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-04-07 20:59:16 UTC ]
Just when you thought the cruelest month couldn’t get any crueler, the Pulitzer Prize Board has only gone and decided to postpone the most anticipated announcement in American letters . . . by two weeks. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama, and Music... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-07 19:29:50 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo, Amelia Gentleman and Kate Clanchy are among the longlisted authors for this year's Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 16:58:58 UTC ]
Here is the shortlist for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. In its fifteenth year, the Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the UK’s most prestigious literary awards, as well as the largest literary prize for young writers (that means age 39 and under). Congratulations to the finalists!... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-07 13:39:50 UTC ]
The work of young and experimental poets dominates this year's Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, worth £30,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-06 21:43:32 UTC ]
The first novel to be published by Stormzy’s new imprint #Merky Books, That Reminds Me by poet and podcaster Derek Owusu, has been longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for debuts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-06 14:35:00 UTC ]
ENTER NOW! DEADLINE: 4/10/20 Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published Book Awards is currently accepting submissions. This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for self-published books. The post Self-Published Book Awards by Tara Johnson appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2020-04-06 13:03:26 UTC ]
Today, the Booker Prize committee announced the shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize—awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. The prize, £50,000, will be split evenly between author and translator of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-02 13:21:22 UTC ]
Six books, one each translated from Dutch, Farsi, German, and Japanese and two from Spanish, have made the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Four indie publishers—Fitzcarraldo, Charco Press, Europa and Faber & Faber—have made the six-strong shortlist for 2020's £50,000 International Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 22:06:39 UTC ]
Laura Cumming, Max Porter and Lucy Ellmann have been longlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, rewarding fiction, non-fiction or poetry – which best evokes the spirit of a place. The RSL is promoting the list on social media this afternoon, showcasing each... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-26 04:38:34 UTC ]
Début author Holly Jackson is up against heavyweight names, including Malorie Blackman and Frances Hardinge, on the shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 22:04:36 UTC ]
Body positivity campaigner and influencer Megan Crabbe and the inaugural Children’s Laureate Wales, Eloise Williams, are among the judges for the 2020 YA Book Prize, which reveals its shortlist later today (Thursday 26th March). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 18:44:12 UTC ]
Greg Orme's The Human Edge (Pearson Business) has been named book of the year the Business Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 15:18:03 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction award ceremony has been postponed until September because of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 08:46:16 UTC ]
The International Booker Prize is the latest prize to announce it is going digital in 2020 in wake of the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 20:18:15 UTC ]
The Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing has launched a new award recognising narrative books that reflect conservation or climate change and how it impacts on nature and the outdoors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 08:29:09 UTC ]
Valeria Luiselli has won the £30,00 Rathbones Folio Prize for her "fiercely imaginative" autobiographical work of fiction, Lost Children Archive (Fourth Estate), inspired by the author's work with young migrants on the Mexico-US border. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 07:59:06 UTC ]