Bart van Es wrote about a Jewish girl who was sheltered by his grandparents during World War Two. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some of New Zealand's best-known authors are in the running for the country's most prestigious literary awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize has staged an interview with its 2018 laureate at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The post Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2019 Opens at India’s Jaipur Festival appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Group, which has sponsored the Booker Prize since 2002 - as well as sponsoring its International Prize from its beginning in 2005 - is to end its association with the prizes at the end of 2019. The Booker Prize Foundation said its trustees were "in discussion with a new sponsor and are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hedge fund’s departure as £1.6m backer of the UK’s leading fiction award has prompted feverish speculation about the prize’s futurePrevious Man Booker prize winners are among those keenly awaiting the announcement of the new sponsor of the prestigious literary award, after the prize’s sponsor of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hedge fund firm says it plans to focus its resources instead on its diversity campaignThe Man Booker prize is searching for a new sponsor after the hedge fund company Man Group announced it was ending its 18-year relationship with Britain’s most prestigious literary award.The Booker Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indian writer Jayant Kaikini, along with translator Tejaswini Niranjana, has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 worth $25,000 (£19,200) for the Mumbai-set short story collection No Presents Please (Harper Perennial). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The entry rules for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize have been changed to extend beyond authors born in the UK or Republic of Ireland with competition bosses eager to have a wider range of voices and greater diversity in texts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Graphic novels, poetry and art history make up some of the Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes shortlists for 2019, with 31 translations from seven languages up for awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookselling Without Borders program will again send bookstore workers to international book fairs and trade shows. And Novi Sad's new Tišma Prize is in its inaugural year. The post Bookselling Without Borders and Tišma Prize Open for Submissions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
American author Joyce Carol Oates has won the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize—Israel’s highest literary honour for foreign writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the best-known and most widely read American authors working today, Joyce Carol Oates has won the Jerusalem Prize and will be on-hand for the Jerusalem International Book Forum in May. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Freedom of the Individual in Society’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curtis Brown is to celebrate its 120th birthday with a series of events spearheaded by a team of young agents, culminating in the Curtis Brown 120 Novel Writing Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novels inspired by the lives of Alan Turing and James Joyce's daughter are among 13 works of fiction in the running for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alan Windram, the founder of independent publishing company Little Door Books, has won this year’s £3,000 Bookbug Picture Book Prize for a title he created with illustrator Chloe Holwill-Hunter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reading charity BookTrust is launching a £5,000 book prize to celebrate titles published for babies and children aged 0-5. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa Halliday has been shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize for her novel Asymmetry (Granta) alongside Chloe Benjamin for The Immortalists (Tinder Press/Headline) alongside four other titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hannah Sullivan has won the £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for her "astonishing" debut collection Three Poems (Faber) Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whilst studying at Oxford, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has just written a book called "We Are Displaced". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bart van Es' The Cut Out Girl (Fig Tree) and Tara Westover's Educated (Hutchinson) have been shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]