A key figure in getting Arabic literature into the wider world, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s secretary general calls for ‘solid channels of communication’ with the international industry and its cultures. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Pushing the Outreach of Arabic... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-10-03 05:44:28 UTC ]
Leading the recently announced Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Authority, Dr. Ali Bin Tamim wants to provide more incentives to translate Arabic literature. The post The Sheikh Zayed Book Prize’s Ali Bin Tamim: ‘Timeless Globalized Values’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-10-03 05:44:28 UTC ]
The British Book Awards and The Bookseller’s working class survey have been shortlisted for prizes at this year’s Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Independent Publisher Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 16:52:21 UTC ]
Lucy Ellmann, Mark Haddon and Deborah Levy are among the authors on a shortlist dominated by indie presses for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 14:28:53 UTC ]
TV presenter and EastEnders actor Meryl Fernandes has joined the judging panel for the 2020 Blue Peter Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 09:23:36 UTC ]
Anna Leader has been named the winner of the 2019 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-30 20:06:03 UTC ]
The longlist for the 2019 Portico Prize has been revealed, with six debuts and ten independent publishers making the cut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-30 09:34:51 UTC ]
The shorlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which awards C$100,000 for the best Canadian work of fiction, includes four authors previously in contention. Among them are David Bezmozgis and Alix Ohlin, but no Margaret Atwood. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
The 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature's 15-title longlist includes seven debut novelists and was chosed from 90 submissions this year. The post DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Releases Its Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-09-27 11:30:31 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction named its 2019 First Novel Prize shortlist this morning. The post Center for Fiction Names 2019 First Novel Prize Shortlist appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-09-26 17:53:27 UTC ]
The £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize will be run by the National Centre for Writing (NCW) in Norwich with a new programme of support for a second novel and a sustainable career in writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-26 14:23:55 UTC ]
Lit Hub is excited to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. This year’s judging panel included Tommy Orange, Emma Straub, Monique Truong, Maaza Mengiste, and Claire Messud. They are: De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing Julia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-26 13:59:29 UTC ]
The winners of the Faber Andlyn Prize for undiscovered BAME writers and illustrators have been revealed, with Sarah Christou and Simji Park taking the top illustration gong while the writing award went to Nadia Attia and Ayesha Braganza. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 21:43:16 UTC ]
Jury chair Jörg Magenau says that issues of family relationships and contemporary male identity are at play in the German Book Prize 2019 shortlist. The post German Book Prize Releases Its 2019 Shortlist: ‘Generational Shift’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-09-24 04:36:36 UTC ]
Two-time winners Donald McRae and Duncan Hamilton are in line for a historic treble after making the 12-strong longlist for the £30,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 03:37:08 UTC ]
Feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez’s "exposé" on the gender data gap, Invisible Women (Chatto & Windus), has scooped the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 14:17:51 UTC ]
Over 250 writers including Sally Rooney, Jeanette Winterson and George Saunders have thrown their support behind novelist Kamila Shamsie after a German literary prize was rescinded due to her support of an Israel boycott. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 11:12:04 UTC ]
Adam Mars-Jones has won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Box Hill, his "strangely tragic love story" set in the gay biker community during the late 1970s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-22 18:21:05 UTC ]
10 novelists make the National Book Awards fiction longlist: Laila Lalami, Colson Whitehead, Ocean Vuong, Julia Phillips and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-09-20 18:20:50 UTC ]
Manda Scott has won the 2019 McIlvanney Prize, making her the second woman in its eight year history to win the £1,000 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-20 15:56:26 UTC ]