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 ]
Marcelo Gleiser, theoretical physicist, professor at Dartmouth, and author of five scientific books, has been named the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney and Anna Burns have made the longlist for this year's Rathbones Folio Prize with 20 writers competing for the £30,000 prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers take up more than half of the Wellcome Book Prize shortlist with Canongate, Oneworld, CB Editions and the Text Publishing company all vying for the £30,000 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Danielle McLaughlin has been awarded a $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize, alongside seven other writers honoured for their literary achievements. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A widening chorus of literary voices from the Arab world is being heard on the international stage, thanks in part to the leadership of the UAE's Sheikh Zayed Book award, says Lebanon's Nasser Jarrous. The post At London Book Fair: Discussing Arabic Literature with Sheikh Zayed Book Award... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bath-based travel publisher Wild Things Publishing has won the inaugural British Book Awards Small Press of the Year, announced at the London Book Fair, and sponsored by the CPI Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books and Collins Learning have won the relaunched British Book Award for Export, announced at the London Book Fair in association with Times Publishing and Pansing Distribution. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
From nine languages on three continents, the Man Booker International Prize will again split the winners' award between author and translator. The post At London Book Fair: The Man Booker International Prize Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judges praise the 13 finalists – all but two published by indie houses – for ‘enriching our idea of what fiction can do’The “finest works of translation from around the world” are almost exclusively published by independent presses – at least according to the Man Booker International prize,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Grime artist Stormzy’s #Merky Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House's William Heinemann division, has announced a prize for new writers to “promote the stories that aren’t being heard”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Lawson, Kate Mosse and Anita Sethi will judge the inaugural Paul Torday Memorial Prize, celebrating first time novelists over the age of 60. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sunny Singh reflects on how far the Jhalak Prize and the publishing industry have come since the award was founded, and how far there is to go. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Raúf (Hachette Children's Group) and The Colours of History by Clive Gifford, illustrated by Marc-Etienne Peintre (QED Publishing), are the winners of this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first novel to be translated from Uzbek into English, described as an "Uzbek Game of Thrones" has won the ERBD Literature Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The McIlvanney Prize is launching a new award for 2019 for Scottish Crime Debut of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two authors will be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year to make up for the cancellation of last year's award, NPR reported Tuesday. The Nobel Foundation made the announcement Tuesday, following months of speculation over the fate of the annual prestigious literary prize. Last year's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has unveiled its longlist, as the chair of the judges warns choosing a shortlist “from these corkers is going to be a tough task”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded twice this year after the Swedish Academy postponed 2018’s event over a sexual assault scandal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Children’s will this September publish a picture book by writer Hannah Lee and illustrator Allen Fatimarahan, both of whom came through the Faber and Andlyn BAME prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]