The field of finalists for the NZ Book awards has been whittled down to 16 top picks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novels dominate this year’s shortlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
This fall the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded for both 2018 and 2019, after changes were made to how laureates are chosen in the wake of scandals that forced the literary prize to be cancelled in 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been revealed, featuring Man Booker winner Anna Burns, Costa Novel Award winner Sally Rooney and seven debut novelists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books, Scholastic and Walker Books have two titles apiece on the shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2019, which includes books by the award’s inaugural winner Louise O’Neill, as well as Juno Dawson, Laura Dockrill and début author Muhammad Khan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suede frontman Brett Anderson and members of the Beastie Boys are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Penderyn Music Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize has received a record number of 33 nominations this year, with potential applicants now urged to “shake off the fear" and apply themselves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bart van Es has won this year’s £2,500 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Cut Out Girl. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booker Prize Foundation has signed an agreement with the Crankstart Foundation to take over sponsorship of the Booker prizes from the Man Group, which has ended its 18 year support off the awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booker Prize will be sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz's charitable foundation Crankstart in a five-year deal, it has been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Young’s Farewell Tour of a Terminal Optimist (Kelpies Edge) is the winner of this year’s £3,000 Scottish Teenage Book Prize, an award run by Scottish Book Trust and supported by Creative Scotland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Allison Al-Masri offers reading recommendations on Arabic literature in translation and talks about the role of prizes like the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in bringing Arabic writing to more readers. The post Six Questions for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s Allison Al-Masri appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Françoise Frenkel’s rediscovered Holocaust memoir No Place to Lay One’s Head has won the 2019 JQ Wingate Literary Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors including Eoin Colfer, PJ Lynch, Lisa Thompson and Alex T Smith are shortlisted for this year’s Children’s Book Awards, which are the only national children’s book prizes voted for entirely by children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
'An incredibly strong list of more than 50 submissions' has been winnowed to the area shortlists for the British Book Awards' new small-press category. The post New at the British Book Awards: 41 Contenders in Small Presses appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction has announced a new seven-year sponsorship agreement that will see its prize money boosted to £50,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Independent Bookshop of the Year category of the 2019 Nibbies has a 48-store shortlist and is broken into nine regions in its initial round. The post British Book Awards Program Names Nine Bookshop Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, has revealed the regional shortlists for the 2019 Independent Bookshop of the Year, sponsored by Gardners Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Staunch Book Prize has returned for a second year with a new judging panel of Baroness Lola Young, academic Dr Dominic Willmott and US editor Elaine Richard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books from Fitzcarraldo Editions, Tilted Axis Press and Peirene Press have been shortlisted for the €20,000 EBRD Literature Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]