Fifi Kuo and Jessica Love are on the first all-female shortlist for this year’s £5,000 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her “outstanding and highly unusual memoir” about her grandmother’s life in Ethiopia, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History (4th Estate). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Galbraith and Nikesh Shukla were amongst the winners of the CrimeFest awards in Bristol. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dame Fiona Kidman takes home a $53,000 prize for her acclaimed novel, 'This Mortal Boy' at the awards, held in Auckland on Tuesday night. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Husband and wife Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman are among the 50 wealthiest individuals or families in the UK, worth £3bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The annual 'Nibbies,' as the British Book Awards are known, this year are led by the acclaimed Irish author, Sally Rooney, who calls herself 'astonishingly lucky.' The post British Book Awards’ Top 2019 Prize Goes to Ireland’s Sally Rooney appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ed Vere has won this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize with his picture book How to be a Lion (Puffin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Irish writer's "exceptional" novel beat Michelle Obama to the top prize at The British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Susskind will receive the €15,000 (£13,000) Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize later this month for his debut Future Politics (Oxford University Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Speaking of the conscious effort it takes to nurture literary creative talent, Joyce Carol Oates accepts the Jerusalem Prize on the opening of the 2019 Jerusalem International Book Forum. The post Israel’s International Book Forum Opens With Joyce Carol Oates’ Jerusalem Prize appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new six-part podcast series for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, produced by prize sponsor Fremantle, has launched. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlists for this year’s English and Welsh language Wales Book of the Year Awards have been announced, reflecting the “incredible breadth” of the country’s literary scene. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The six-title shortlist has been revealed for this year’s Society of Theatre Research (STR) Theatre Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claire Adam, Michael Donkor and Anna Mackmin have all made the 2019 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist for debut novelists, with the winner in line for £10,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize has announced its five regional awards this year have all been won by women. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Soho Friday Media has bagged the “gangster book of the year” from drug lord Pablo Escobar’s eldest son, following a chance meeting in Mallorca. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nina Stibbe has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with her “pitch-perfect romp” Reasons to be Cheerful (Viking). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker and Jhalak Prize winners Anna Burns and Guy Gunaratne are among the 12 novelists longlisted for the first Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indies make up half of this year's Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize longlist, with Head of Zeus bagging two nominations for the £15,000 prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Magazine has launched its debut fiction prize for a second year, following the success of its inaugural year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]