Francis Spufford has been awarded the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize for his "miraculously constructed" debut Golden Hill (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloody Scotland today (20th June) revealed the longlist for the McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daniel Shand has been named the winner of this year's £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for his darkly comic novel Fallow (Sandstone Press) at the Society of Authors’ annual awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish writer Sebastian Barry has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for a second time for his American epic Days Without End (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
An army of caterpillars and a troop of monkeys also help US children's illustrator Lane Smith win a top book award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian John Bew has won the £3,000 Orwell Prize for Books 2017 for his biography of former Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, published by riverrun/Quercus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Portobello Books is launching a new non-fiction prize for unpublished writers, in association with literary agency C+W and retailer Foyles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Milkweed Editions is launching the $10,000 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize for debut collections, in honor of the young poet who died of cancer in 2016, weeks before his debut collection was published by the Minneapolis-based nonprofit press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Expanded into a full day conference, the NBF's Why Reading Matters awarded its $10,000 Innovations in Reading Prize to Alvin Irby of Barbership Books and featured a keynote address by novelist and new bookstore owner, Emma Straub. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Israeli writer David Grossman's A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen and published by Jonathan Cape, has won this year's Man Booker International Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
British-born translator Jessica Cohen and Israeli author David Grossman share the £50,000 Man Booker International purse for 'A Horse Walks Into a Bar.' The post Author David Grossman and Translator Jessica Cohen Win the 2017 Man Booker International Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven titles from independent publishers are in the running for the inaugural £5,000 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize, which celebrates second poetry collections. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
An independent review into the Welsh Government's support of publishing and literature in Wales has recommended the Welsh Books Council take on some of the functions of Literature Wales, including the administration of its Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
During Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany's publishers and booksellers will honor Margaret Atwood as 'one of the most important storytellers of our era.' The post German Book Trade’s Peace Prize Goes to Canada’s Margaret Atwood appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
An Eagle in the Snow follows in the footsteps of Shadow, Kensuke's Kingdom and Private Peaceful. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo has won the overall Children’s Book Award for a record-breaking fourth time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Art historian and curator Rosalind Blakesley has won the fifth annual Pushkin House Russian book prize for her title The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757-1881, published by Yale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017 shortlist celebrating the best non-fiction on any historical subject has been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Alderman has won the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her feminist science fiction novel The Power (Viking). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The inaugural Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour was awarded in March. Co-founder and chair of judges Sunny Singh analyses what the 100-plus submissions made to the prize reveal about the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]