The Duchess of Cornwall has welcomed winners of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction along with jurors and others to a Buckingham Palace reception as the 'Golden Man Booker' weekend programming begins at Southbank Centre. The post Golden Man Booker Prize Celebrations Open With Buckingham Palace... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton) has become the first children’s book to be shortlisted for the £5,000 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika has won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “Fanta Blackcurrant”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Publishing Perspectives, and the Frankfurt Book Fair New York will host at seminar on Arabic literature in translation in NYC. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award, PP, and Frankfurt Book Fair NY Hosts Event Celebrating Arabic Literature in Translation appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literature Wales has disputed the BBC's claim that some of the Wales Book of the Year winners have only sold as few as 20 copies, describing the Nielsen data as “misleading”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Postal service company An Post has signed a three year headline sponsorship deal with the Irish Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Almost half the shortlisted authors for the Welsh Book of the Year awards have sold fewer than 100 copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
King Abdullah II of Jordan won the 2018 Templeton Prize for his efforts to establish religious harmony within Islam and between Islam and other religions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Minhinnick has won the £4,000 Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for his “powerful and political” poetry collection published by independent press Carcanet—25 years after first scooping the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honour, from America's Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of Little House on the Prairie about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Under his real name, Darren McGarvey, the social commentator was praised for his book Poverty Safari. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s "stereotypical attitudes" toward Native Americans and African Americans. The Assn. for Library Service to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer, rapper and community activist Darren McGarvey, also known as 'Loki', has won the Orwell Prize for Books for his "heart-rending" debut Poverty Safari (Luath Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Her Little House on the Prairie series has been criticised for racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish-Canadian writer Joanna Pocock has scooped the £3,000 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her work exploring communities and their relationships with the changing landscapes of Montana. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
María J Guarda from the Cambridge School of Art has won this year’s Macmillan Prize for Illustration with her story of a family in exile. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Her debut novel was rejected by publishers multiple times before winning the Desmond Elliott Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Preti Taneja has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "awe-inspiring" retelling of King Lear in We Are That Young. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette has scooped five nominations for the McIlvanney Prize Scottish crime book of the year, with HarperCollins securing three nods. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]