Lebanese author Hoda Barakat has won this year’s $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for her epistolary novel The Night Mail (Dar al-Adab), only the second woman to get the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two of the foremost scholars and researchers in Arabic literature are a couple. And Suzanne and Jaroslav Stetkevych's designation as 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award 'Cultural Personalities of the Year' revives an Arabic tradition of honoring families' accomplishments. The post The Zayed Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the second annual Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is Francesca Reece. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The six-book shortlist for this year’s Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize has been revealed, with non-fiction dominating the nominations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The White Review Short Story Prize has unveiled its shortlist following a record year of 570 submissions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
American novelist Richard Powers has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory (published by William Heinemann in the UK, Norton in the US). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nina Stibbe and Roddy Doyle have been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, on a shortlist that is dominated by women. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Jon McGregor will help to judge the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature as part of the newly unveiled panel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since 1942, The Times has won 44 Pulitzer Prizes, six of which are gold medals for public service Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Monday for its series of stories that exposed a USC gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of students during three decades at a campus clinic. Three investigative reporters with The Times — Harriet Ryan, Matt... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press and Yale University Press have bagged two nominations each as the Wolfson History Prize 2019 shortlist is revealed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some of the most provocative topics in American political discourse — from the opioid crisis to racial identity to the country’s southern border — were at the heart of the books celebrated Friday night during the 39th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Held inside USC’s Bovard Auditorium, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newly renamed Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award opens today (April 12) for submissions as it announces its new sponsorship regime. The post The UK’s Young Writer Prize Opens for Submissions and Remixes Its Sponsors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Named for an avid young reader who died very early, Oscar's Book Prize recognizes titles for pre-schoolers with an eye to family reading. The post Oscar’s Book Prize Announces Its 2019 Shortlist for Kids Under 5 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Tracy Chevalier will judge the inaugural £3,000 Curtis Brown First Novel Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie publishers and women, including last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk, dominate the £50,000 Man Booker International Prize shortlist, revealed on Tuesday (9th April). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning poet John Burnside will chair this year’s T S Eliot Prize judging panel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Female authors dominate this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize, with 15 women making up the 21-strong line-up and two British authors in the mix. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Musician Shirley Collins’ memoir All in the Downs (Strange Attractor) has won the Penderyn Music Book Prize for 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House division Puffin and Bloomsbury both have two titles shortlisted for this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]