The winners of the Kingston Animation Prize have been revealed, with Vintage judges praising this year’s entries for their “imagination, vision and unusual approach”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns and Guy Stagg are among the eight authors shortlisted for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize with indie publishers dominating this year’s award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie Kogan Page is celebraing after The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century by Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren, was named the Business Book of the Year 2019 at the Business Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hip-hop artist Akala and Will Eaves are among the authors on the shortlist for the centenary awards of the James Tait Black Prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
German Book Prize jurors are reviewing the submissions for the 2019 literary award: 173 titles in total, of which 71 won't be published until this fall. The post German Book Prize Draws 173 Titles for This Year’s Competition appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A “dazzling” six-book shortlist has been announced for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A personal dictionary of the Japanese language and a speculative history of Goddess cultures are some of the works battling it out for the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Republic of Consciousness prize honours Will Eaves and Alex Pheby, but says awards make us wrongly consider a sole winner ‘the best’A novel about James Joyce’s troubled daughter, Lucia, and a reimagining of the chemical castration of Alan Turing have been named the joint winners of the Republic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Galley Beggar Press and CB Editions have both won this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, as its founder announced the contest would no longer be restricted to just one winner. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 20-book longlist for this year’s £10,000 Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize has been revealed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
All eight shortlists for the British Book Awards Books of the Year have been announced, with a strong focus on international writers including Michelle Obama, Michael Wolff, Sally Rooney and Leila Slimani. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boy at the Back of the Class is "a future classic", Waterstones Children's Book Prize judges say. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British Book Awards, or 'Nibbies'–which comprise both industry and book honors–today announce their books of the year shortlists. The post The British Book Awards: 2019 Books of the Year Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf (Hachette Children’s Books) is the winner of this year’s overall £5,000 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, beating off competition from other category winners Tomi Adeyemi, Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michelle Obama’s Becoming goes up against Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury at the British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette and Penguin Random House are leading The British Book Awards’ trade shortlists with 11 nominations each, with Hachette managing hat-tricks in both the Imprint and Publisher of the Year categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book written by a North Canterbury author is up for a special international business book award in London next week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year's recipients of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, as announced to date, come from Morocco, Kuwait, Algeria, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2019 Winners: ‘World-Class Thinkers and Authors’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury imprint Raven Books has won a debut crime novel by Nigerian author Femi Kayode following a four-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elly McCausland and Dan Saladino have won the Jane Grigson Trust prize, marking the first time the judges have decided to award the prize to two shortlisted authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]