Olga Tokarczuk has become the first Polish author to scoop the £50,000 Man Booker International Prize for Flights, "brilliantly translated" by Jennifer Croft and published by independent press Fitzcarraldo Editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three attorney-authors are up for this year's Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, with an autographed copy of the late writer's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' waiting for the winner. The public votes through June 30. The post Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction Shortlisters: Lawyers in Love With... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been withheld for the first time in its 18 years because none of the entries "prompted unanimous, abundant laughter". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our pictures round-up of the 2018 British Book Awards features authors Judith Kerr and Philip Pullman, Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page, literary agent Madeleine Milburn and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A collection of poems by Parisien-born Pascale Petit has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Axel Scheffler said that Brexit makes him “sad and angry every day” as he picked up the Illustrator of the Year prize at The British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s A Pig Up My Nose by John Dougherty and Laura Hughes (Egmont) has won the Oscar’s Book Prize 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In categories of art, photography, fiction, nonfiction, and speciality books, the 213-year-old New England Society announces winners of its award for trade books of regional interest and significance. The post New England Society Names Five 2018 Book Awards: Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, and Travel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman and Eleanor Oliphant author Gail Honeyman are honoured at the British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 'Nibbies,' as they're known, combined their usual glamour with a certain amount of politically tinged commentary, Brexit coming in for sharp criticism as the industry's best-performing people and writings were honored at the British Book Awards. The post British Book Awards Include Political... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Knowing the current trends for all the different countries' is among challenges tackled by the foreign rights experts who are shortlisted for tonight's British Book Awards. Their Nibbie is called the Rights Professional of the Year. The post Insights From the Foreign Rights Specialists... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anne Applebaum has won the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for a second time, with victory for her account of the great Ukrainian famine of the early 1930’s, Red Famine (Penguin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A program that provides more than 27,000 educators with weekly poetry and teaching materials to support it has won the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation. The post Industry Notes: ‘Teach This Poem’ Wins National Book Foundation’s Innovations Prize appeared first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Zambian-born British poet Kayo Chingonyi has won the £30,000 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut collection Kumukanda (Chatto). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist and historian Giles Tremlett has won the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for his work Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen (Bloomsbury). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new category announced in Frankfurter Buchmesse's Film Awards program is for Best Illustrated Book on a Film-Related Subject–sumptuous film biographies, costume-design studies, or the making of a ground-breaking design: all are fair game in this new class of entry. The post Frankfurter... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cole has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for her translation of 'Old Rendering Plant' by Wolfgang Hilbig, the Goethe-Institut announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature has confirmed that it plans to postpone this year's award following the sexual assault scandal which has rocked the organisation and led to nearly half the 18-strong Academy resigning their posts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy has announced the 2018 literature prize will be given in 2019, the first time since 1943 that the prize has been delayed. Allegations of sexual assault against the husband of one of its former members has created a rift within the secret academy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy says the Nobel Prize in literature will not be awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within its ranks that have tarnished the body's reputation. The academy said Friday the 2018 prize will be given in 2019. The decision was made at a weekly meeting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]