During the Berlin Book Days events this week, the Börsenverein has praised Salgado for 'raising worldwide awareness for the fate of laborers and migrants as well as for the living conditions of indigenous peoples.' The post Brazilian Photographer Sebastião Salgado Wins German Book Trade Peace... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-06-18 13:44:39 UTC ]
Robin Robertson has become the first Scot to win the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction with his book The Long Take (Picador). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 13:23:17 UTC ]
With two awards in place this year, London’s Polari Prizes announce a dual set of shortlists, with longlists expected in late July. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Books That Tell the Truth’ his evening (June 10) at London’s Southbank Centre, opening the ninth year of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-06-10 20:51:46 UTC ]
The longlists for the Polari Prize and the Polari First Book Prize have been revealed, with stories about trans lives and gender identities featuring heavily on the 24-strong list. . Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-10 20:37:34 UTC ]
News and Events WLT Norman, Okla. (June 11, 2019) – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announced the names of nine writers to be the jury... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-06-10 16:04:37 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns and Women's Prize shortlistee Diana Evans are among the six novelists shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-10 01:32:56 UTC ]
Poet and performer playwright Lemn Sissay has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, with judges praising his ability to "forge beautiful words and a thousand reasons to live and love". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 23:11:15 UTC ]
Audiobooks from Penguin Random House Audio UK and HarperCollins have received a string of nominations in this year’s New York Festivals Radio Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 17:25:09 UTC ]
A Pulitzer Prize winner at The Wall Street Journal, he wrote the best sellers “Blue Latitudes” and “Confederates in the Attic” and seven other books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-05-30 16:33:57 UTC ]
Sara Barnard has won The Bookseller's YA Book Prize in its fifth year for her "unflinching" and "utterly riveting" contemporary novel about the impact of a teacher-student relationship, Goodbye, Perfect (Macmillan Children's Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-30 13:18:19 UTC ]
Anna Burns is the bookies' favourite to win the £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction, with the latest odds from William Hill putting Milkman (Faber) at 6/4. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-30 07:48:44 UTC ]
On the afternoon of June 28, a gunman entered the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, killing five staffers before surrendering to police. Shaken survivors from the newsroom worked late into the night to put out an edition the following morning. Exactly 11 months later, on Tuesday,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the afternoon of June 28, a gunman entered the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, killing five staffers before surrendering to police. Shaken survivors from the newsroom worked late into the night to put out an edition the following morning. Exactly 11 months later, on Tuesday,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Translator Damion Searls has received the US$10,000 Wolff Translator's Prize, and the Women Poet's Prize announces a collection of Rebecca Swift's work. The post Searls Wins Wolff Translator’s Prize; UK’s Women’s Poets Announce Swift Book appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-24 05:31:10 UTC ]
Alexander McCall Smith will kick off the 10th anniversary celebrations for the Walter Scott Prize with an operetta. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-22 07:12:31 UTC ]
Jokha Alharthi and Marilyn Booth have won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for "Celestial Bodies," a coming-of-age novel written by Alharthi and translated from Arabic by Booth. Organizers of the literary prize, given annually to a work of fiction translated into English, made the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-21 22:50:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker International has its first Arabic-language winner. Oman's Jokha Alharthi and Boston-born translator Marilyn Booth split the £50,000 award. The post Oman’s Jokha Alharthi and Translator Marilyn Booth Win the 2019 Man Booker International Prize appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-21 20:45:10 UTC ]
The Wellcome Book Prize has been temporarily suspended following 10 years of the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 00:25:39 UTC ]
Wouk authored million-selling books like "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds Of War." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-05-17 16:46:19 UTC ]
The acclaimed debut novelist talks of his fellow-feeling for 'aspiring writers, who are writing from a place similar to where I began.' Gunaratne divides his time between London and Malmö. The post Guy Gunaratne Wins the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize for ‘Mad and Furious City’ appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-17 03:10:10 UTC ]