Ahead of special events for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction's half-century anniversary, the foundation releases a desk diary with covers of winning titles. The post The UK’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction Observes Its 50th Anniversary in 2018 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A range of food and drink books from publishers including Bloomsbury, Phaidon and Quiller Publishing have been shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
French author Claude Simon may have won the 1985 Nobel prize for literature, but according to a recent experiment he would not be published today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Woolf has won the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize 2017 for an uncommissioned first biography for his proposed book Queen Victoria’s Freaks: The Performers at Buckingham Palace. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The agency, formed by three publishing houses, this year has captured both the 'adult' Finlandia Prize and the junior prize in children's literature. The post Helsinki Literary Agency Authors Win Both the Finlandia Prize and the Junior Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s has named its Book of the Year as the "inspirational" Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Particular Books) by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fêted for her auspicious debut, ‘Conversations With Friends,’ Dubliner Sally Rooney at 26 is tied with Zadie Smith (2001, ‘White Teeth’) for youngest winner of the Sunday Times/PFD prize for emerging authors from the UK and Ireland. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Conversations With Friends' author Dubliner Sally Rooney at 26 wins the Sunday Times/PFD prize for emerging authors from the UK and Ireland. The post Irish Author Sally Rooney Wins the UK’s Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Politicians have voted Nick Clegg’s How to Stop Brexit as the best non-fiction by a parliamentarian this year in the Parliamentary Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Templar Publishing is launching a dragon-themed prize for aspiring illustrators as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah has been named chair of the judges for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme editor Sarah Sands has been unveiled as the chair of the judges for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever Dundas’ "captivating" novel Goblin (Saraband) has won the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award, it was announced at a ceremony held in Edinburgh. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kim Moore has won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her poetry collection The Art of Falling (Seren Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will chair the judging panel for the 2018 Russian Book Prize run by Pushkin House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman’s first instalment of the Book of Dust has been crowned the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and John Connolly are among the authors honoured at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman's return to the world of His Dark Materials is a hit with bookshop staff. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker International Prize-winning translator and publisher Deborah Smith is to support national charity The Reader by match-funding donations to the total value of £5,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kiwis looking for a summer read should take a "risk" on a book from the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist, one of the awards' organisers says. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]