James O’Brien, Rachel Reeves and Ian Murray triumphed at the Parliamentary Book Awards tonight beating David Cameron, Jess Philips and Melvyn Bragg to take home prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-26 11:30:36 UTC ]
Award-winning Christian titles can often break into the broader market, and publishers are taking notice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Theroux has received this year’s top prize at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, winning the Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-26 00:09:23 UTC ]
Zadie Smith and Ben Lerner are among the eight authors shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-25 23:52:49 UTC ]
Oxford University professor Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads (Bloomsbury), will chair the jury for the 2020 Cundill History Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-24 17:35:45 UTC ]
The Small Press of the Year Award returns for a second year: last year the overall award was won by Bath-based publisher Wild Things Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-21 11:25:57 UTC ]
It’s an exciting year for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes! This will be its 40th year of celebrating the literary community. The Times announced their 2019 Book Prize finalists today; the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on April 17th. Additionally, bestselling crime... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-19 17:41:26 UTC ]
The still-young Aspen Words Literary Prize's longlisted titles point up 'humor in the midst of serious situations'–in issue-driven fiction. The post Aspen Words $35,000 Literary Prize Names Its 2020 Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-02-19 15:30:55 UTC ]
The 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honor crime novelist Walter Mosley for lifetime achievement. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-19 14:00:25 UTC ]
The Telegraph Sports Book Awards has announced a new prize for children’s titles and made the National Literacy Trust its charity partner for 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-18 15:25:53 UTC ]
To toast its 30th anniversary, the 'Nibbies' ceremony on May 18 will name a 'best of the best' winner with the lucky author onstage. The post British Book Awards Celebrates Three Decades: The ’30 From 30′ Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-02-14 17:24:27 UTC ]
Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book worldIt could be almost the setup for a joke, but a former president, a Booker winner and an erotic fiction superstar have walked on to the British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-14 06:01:23 UTC ]
The Carol Shields Prize is an effort to raise the visibility of women writers, in part with a sum that far exceeds many other book awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-07 10:00:17 UTC ]
Roger Robinson has won the £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for his "searing" poetry collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 13:53:02 UTC ]
TV presenter and children's author Dermot O'Leary will join Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon and children's book consultant Jake Hope on the judging panel of Oscar’s Book Prize for 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 06:24:18 UTC ]
John le Carré has been awarded the $100,000 Olof Palme Prize, an honour awarded to outstanding achievement in the spirit of assassinated Swedish politician Olof Palme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-09 18:12:09 UTC ]
A new prize has been launched to recognise the work university presses do in addressing issues of global importance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-07 12:50:08 UTC ]
Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch, the daily online news service for the U.K., have launched the Selfies book awards for self-published authors in the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
Lee Child will be a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize, it has been revealed, joining a panel including author Lemn Sissay and chaired by Margaret Busby. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 23:36:24 UTC ]
Lemn Sissay’s account of his childhood in care My Name is Why (Canongate) has been shortlisted for the 2019 Slightly Foxed Best Biography Prize along with Francesca Segal’s story of sitting "vigil" for her premature twins, Mother Ship (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 22:27:54 UTC ]