Ex-soldier and novelist Jan Morris CBE has been recognised for her outsanding contribution to travel writing by The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, while Kapka Kassabova was honoured with the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year for Border (Granta). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With roughly 25 awards on the list, the British Book Awards–the 'Nibbies'–are selected by a sizable group of industry players who serve as jurors. The deadline for entries in this year's competition is February 9. The post British Book Award Judges Announced as the ‘Nibbies’ Entry Deadline... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
America’s National Book Awards will reportedly expand to recognise works in translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A letter from 30 industry figures is urging the award to reverse 2014’s inclusion of US authors, in order to avoid a ‘homogenised literary future’Tensions over the decision to allow US authors to enter the Man Booker prize have flared up yet again, with 30 publishers signing a letter urging the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many in publishing and those disheartened by the xenophobia of the times may cheer the National Book Foundation's decision to add a category for translated literature with what Lisa Lucas calls 'the power to touch us as American readers.' The post The US National Book Award Goes International... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Reni Eddo-Lodge are some of the authors in the running for the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, on a longlist of books published mostly by independent presses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
For a second time in its 46-year life, the Costa Book Award's chief honor is a posthumous award, the jury chair calling Helen Dunmore's 'Inside the Wave' poetry collection 'a modern classic...life affirming and uplifting.' The post Costa Book of the Year Honor Goes to the Late Helen Dunmore... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has established a fifth National Book Award, one for translated works of fiction and nonfiction published in the U.S. The new award will be presented at the 69th National Book Awards this November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Dunmore's poetry collection, Inside the Wave, wins 2018's Costa Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A screenwriter has launched an award for a novel in the thriller genre in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Sarah Perry is to chair the judging panel for the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leading Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and novelist and poet Deborah Levy are among those judging the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
'When nativism, populism, and xenophobia are on the march,' the British Academy's Al-Rodhan Prize has timely currency in the 2018 prize year. And US-based booksellers will travel to Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Turin Book Fair on Bookselling Without Borders scholarships. The post Accepting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The writer and broadcaster Bidisha will chair the jury of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2017 bestseller list was dominated by women, with Margaret Atwood at the top, but the Booker still favours menOn the face of it, the revelation that female writers dominated the UK literary bestseller lists in 2017 might seem cause for celebration, a long-overdue correction that seems... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) has revealed its longlist of 16 novels in contention for the 2018 prize, including a novel soon to be published by independent UK publisher Oneworld. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Zealand author Joy Cowley has been shortlisted for the highest international distinction given to the creators of children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Translators' Association First Translation Prize, set up by writer and translator Daniel Hahn, has revealed its inaugural shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books from The Rolling Stones and "Godfather of Grime" Wiley will compete for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chae Strathie and Nicola O’Byrne have won this year’s Bookbug Picture Book Prize, run by Scottish Book Trust and voted for by children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]