'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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 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 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 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 ]
Following a ballooning sexual harassment scandal that has engulfed the Swedish Academy for weeks, the Academy has pushed off awarding the 2018 prize until next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) recognized Sarah Young's bestselling devotional, 'Jesus Always' (Thomas Nelson), with its top award, the 2018 Christian Book the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The inaugural Portobello Prize has been awarded to "electrifying new voice" Samira Shackle for Karachi Vice, a "fresh and thrilling" non-fiction exploration of Pakistan’s largest city. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish journalist Mark O’Connell’s “passionate, entertaining and cogent examination” into the use of technology to cheat death and push the human body beyond its current limitations has won the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize for 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Student Riko Sekiguchi has won the Carmelite Picture Book Prize with her illustrations for a picture book text by Peter Bently. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark O'Connell wins the Wellcome Book Prize for surveying transhumanist ideas of "improving our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better." The post Wellcome Book Prize Goes to Mark O’Connell for ‘To Be a Machine’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hope and cross-cultural understanding were big themes at the official ceremony honoring the winners of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Abu Dhabi. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Ceremony Honors 2018 Winners and Cultural Personality of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in Literature may not be awarded this year, following the sexual assault scandal that has rocked the Swedish Academy which governs the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
This is the last year that British authors are likely to be eligible to enter the European Book Prize (Prix du Livre Européen), with the UK's exit from the European Union looming in March 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lightning Books has bought the second novel by the Scottish-born winner of Australia’s richest literary prize, Ryan O’Neill, about a 19th century short story reimagined 99 times. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]