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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Debut novel We That Are Young takes £10,000 award after early struggles to find a publisherPreti Taneja’s debut novel We That Are Young, a reimagining of King Lear set in contemporary India that was rejected by multiple major publishers as commercially unviable, has won the £10,000 Desmond... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Benjamin Myers has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction with The Gallows Pole, published by small Yorkshire-based independent press Bluemoose Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among the most deeply credentialed juries in the literary award year, the Cundill History Prize's panel for 2018 goes to work at a time when history's lessons are badly needed. Chair Mark Gilbert quotes LP Hartley: 'The past is another country: they do things differently there.' The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amor Towles, Geraldine McCaughrean, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton have been named the winners of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2018 for her "refusal to be deterred or detained by the categories of others". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jean-Claude Arnault, the French photographer at the centre of the sexual assault allegations which have led to the postponement of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has been charged with rape. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The husband-wife team of Aleida and Jan Assmann, both authors and researchers, are known for their work in "cultural memory" and its contrast in many instances to individual experience and recollection in society. The post Aleida and Jan Assmann To Receive the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martine Wright has won the Autobiography of the Year Award at the 2018 Sports Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kamila Shamsie has scooped this year's £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her "extraordinarily topical" novel Home Fire (Bloomsbury Circus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the year that Kamila Shamsie once proposed as a 'Year of Publishing Women,' the Pakistani-British author has won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 for 'Home Fire' in London. The post Kamila Shamsie Wins £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]