The Liberal Democrat leader's novel Open Arms isn't shortlisted for the prize, despite "many" nominations. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelists Jim Crace, Nikesh Shukla and writer Kate Summerscale are to be the judges of next year's Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anuk Arudpragasam has won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, published by Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Redhill was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and its attendant C$100,000 purse for his novel 'Bellevue Square' (Doubleday Canada) on November 20. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the award ceremony in Bangladesh this year, the DSC Prize this year goes to Anuk Arudpragasam for his debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage. The post DSC Prize in South Asian Literature Goes to Sri Lankan Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada (Portobello Books) and translated by Susan Bernofsky has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
British historian Daniel Beer has been named as the 2017 winner of the $75,000 (£56,820) International Cundill History Prize – the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
David France has won the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for his account of the plague years of the AIDS epidemic, How to Survive a Plague (Picador). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barker beats novels by Will Self and Jon McGregor to take home the £10,000 literary prize for her narrative-bending vision of a dystopian futureNicola Barker’s H(a)ppy has won this year’s Goldsmiths prize for “fiction at its most novel”, praised by judges as a work of “vaulting ambition”.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literature Wales is to administer the Wales Book of the Year awards in 2018, although the future of the prize is still under review. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dr Sue Black is to present the FutureBook Awards at this year’s FutureBook Conference, to be held on 1st December in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bill Clinton handed Scholastic's Dick Robinson a lifetime achievement award. 'The happy ending still beckons,' Proulx said at the National Book Awards. The post Jesmyn Ward Wins Second National Book Award in Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker longlistee Nicola Barker has won the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppy (William Heinemann), a novel described as “an embodiment of the defiant and inventive spirit”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 68th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, politics were again front and center in the publishing world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The key event in the US National Book Foundation's annual awards program is the ceremony on Wednesday evening (November 15) in New York City. The post Industry Notes: National Book Award Live Stream Wednesday appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harriet Harman, Nick Clegg and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis are among the writer politicians shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards, voted for by parliamentarians. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of Oprah Book Club selection 'Breath, Eyes, Memory,' Haitian-American author Edwidge Denticat has won the 25th Neustadt. The post Edwidge Danticat Named Winner of Neustadt International Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emily Ford has won the £1,000 RSL VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2017 for her short story "The Hikers". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Simon & Schuster book exploring the human consequences of the General Motors assembly plant closure in an American town has won the £30,000 Business Book of the Year Award 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Feminism Has No Boundaries' is the title of France's Albertine Books festival this week, as Cynthia Nixon is named Naitonal Book Awards host. The post Industry Notes: Cynthia Nixon Hosts US National Book Awards; Albertine Opens Festival appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]