The Pulitzer Prize Board today announces a new Journalism prize category for the 2020 prize cycle: Audio Reporting. “The renaissance Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-06 15:53:37 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble booksellers around the country have voted to name Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated fable 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse' Barnes & Noble’s 2019 Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jane Bettany has won HQ and Gransnet's writing prize for unpublished women writers aged over 40. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 01:51:32 UTC ]
Duncan Hamilton has become the first person to win the William Hill Sports Book of the Year three times after he scooped the 2019 prize for The Great Romantic (Hodder & Stoughton). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-04 18:37:26 UTC ]
Caroline Criado Perez has triumphed to win the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award 2019 with her gender data gap book, Invisible Women (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-04 02:51:49 UTC ]
Two members of the external Nobel literature prize committee have quit – one over the choice of Peter Handke as this year's winner and the other over the slow pace of reforms since the sexual assault scandal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 10:30:14 UTC ]
The shortlists for the Society of Authors’ 2019 Translation Prizes have been revealed, seeing 35 translated works from nine different languages put into the running for almost £20,000 in prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 08:11:57 UTC ]
Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Viking) has triumphed in a vote by Blackwell’s booksellers across the country to be named Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 15:21:12 UTC ]
Guide by the late Charles L Dobbins, known as the father of modern trapping, sees off polemical defence of traditional dairiesThe Dirt Hole and Its Variations might be a serious guide to hunting and trapping foxes, coyotes, bobcats and raccoons, but the double entendre has helped it land the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-29 11:35:58 UTC ]
Linda Grant, Dani Shapiro and Howard Jacobson are among the 12 writers longlisted for the 2020 Wingate Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 08:00:18 UTC ]
Greta Thunberg has been named Author of the Year by Waterstones, while The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury) was named 2019’s top book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 04:07:03 UTC ]
The six-strong shortlist for this year’s Tony Lothian Prize, which awards £2,000 to the best unpublished biography, have been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 22:18:02 UTC ]
A re-released classic hunting and trapping guide has snared the 41st edition of The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 11:06:09 UTC ]
Candice Carty-Williams, Malorie Blackman and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan are among the 20 authors shortlisted for this year’s Costa Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 21:14:59 UTC ]
Eighty-eight-year-old Irish author Edna O’Brien has won the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature for having “broken down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond and moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 18:17:47 UTC ]
Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, has said prizes like the Booker are for readers first and foremost, and that they should be treated as an investigation rather than an act of judgement shaping the canon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 12:59:25 UTC ]
Audio has dominated the FutureBook Awards with Backlisted winning the Podcast of the Year Award, and Ladybird Audio Adventures picking up the FutureBook of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 09:54:03 UTC ]
Samantha Harvey’s The Western Wind (Vintage) has won the £1000 2019 Staunch Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 19:26:29 UTC ]
A diverse group of writers was recognized by the National Book Foundation for shaping the literary landscape over the past year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-11-22 15:24:09 UTC ]
A diverse group of writers was recognized by the National Book Foundation for shaping the literary landscape over the past year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-11-22 15:24:09 UTC ]