French journalist Philippe Lançon makes his first public appearance since the 2015 attack in Paris. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three US historians are in the running for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, the largest prize for a work of non-fiction in English, run by Canada's McGill University. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Penguin Random House and HarperCollins are competing with an unpublished manuscript on the inaugural Staunch Prize shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daisy Johnson’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Everything Under (Jonathan Cape) is up for Blackwell’s Book of the Year along with The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Chicken House). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claire Collison, Anita Pati and Nina Mingya Powles have won the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize, celebrating poetry and the empowerment of women. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and translator Emily Ruth Ford has become the first person to win the £1,000 V S Pritchett Short Story Prize twice. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kapka Kassabova's "extraordinary" book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta) has won the British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona Mozley, author of Man Booker shortlisted debut Elmet (John Murray), has been announced as one of the judges of the 2019 £5,000 Northern Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Designed 'to find the best popular books of the year in the lead-up to Christmas,' the UK's Specsavers National Book Awards will end with a consumer vote. The post The UK’s National Book Awards Announce Holiday Season Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist and short story writer Benyamin has won the inaugural JCB prize for Literature in India. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Orwell Foundation will next month launch a prize to celebrate novels or short stories that illuminate social and political themes through the art of narrative. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
An academic treatise on dung, a how-to guide of acupuncture for horses and the first-ever German language entry are among the six books in the running for the 40th edition of The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Waterstones bookseller is shortlisted for the V S Pritchett Short Story Prize, along with Early One Morning author Virginia Baily and short story writer Michelle Wright. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Association of American Publishers' PROSE Awards for scholarly and professional books will be named in February. The National Book Awards winners ceremony is on November 14. The post AAP Opens 2019 PROSE Awards to Entries; National Book Awards Host Is Nick Offerman appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new literature award, the JCB Prize goes to the work of a Kerala author who writes about issues and personalities in the Middle East. His newest book is from Juggernaut. The post Author Benyamin’s ‘Jasmine Days’ Wins Inaugural JCB Prize for Literature in India appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year’s shortlist also includes Jesus on Gardening, Equine Dry Needling and Why Sell Tacos in Africa?A book that celebrates Germany’s timesaving contribution to global cuisine is among the contenders for the 2018 Diagram prize for the oddest title of the year. The Joy of Waterboiling may... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) is partnering with New Writing North (NWN) on a new prize for debut children’s writers who live and work in the North of England. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer, broadcaster and antiques expert Jeremy Cooper has won the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, worth £3,000, for his novel Ash Before Oak. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles about boxing, darts, football, golf, rugby, swimming and the Olympic Games are on the shortlist for this year’s £30,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona Mozley has won the Polari First Book Prize 2018 for her Man Booker-shortlisted debut, Elmet (John Murray). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]