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 ]
Nature writer John Lewis-Stempel has doubled his chances of winning the Wainwright Golden Beer Prize after having two of his titles longlisted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stand-up comedian Rohan Agalawatta and freelance illustrator Lucy Farfort have won the Faber Children’s and Andlyn Agency’s inaugural FAB Prize for BAME writers and illustrators. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Naomi Alderman will join the judging panel for the 30th anniversary of The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kit de Waal has won the €15,000 (£13,100) Kerry Group Irish Book of the Year for her "heartfelt and far-sighted" fiction work My Name is Leon (Viking). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patrice Lawrence has won The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize 2017 for her “accomplished” and “page-turning” début novel, contemporary urban thriller Orangeboy (Hodder Children’s Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon Sebag Montefiore has been awarded the €20,000 Literary Prize Lupicaia del Terriccio 2017 for his book The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Franz Kafka prize winner speaks on Saturday (June 3) at BookExpo's BookCon with 'The Handmaid's Tale' showrunner Bruce Miller. The post Margaret Atwood Named Winner of Prague’s Franz Kafka International Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction has announced it is adopting a new, collective sponsorship model instead of a single headline sponsor going forward. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Williams, a doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University and former Google employee, has won the inaugural $100,000 (£77,730) Nine Dots Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucy Cavendish College, part of the University of Cambridge, has named the 2017 winner of its fiction prize as Sarah Ward, with her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsboro Books has launched a new £2,000 prize for “compelling” contemporary fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 for the first in her Seasonal four-part series, Autumn (Hamish Hamilton). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picturebook maker Chris Haughton has won the 27th Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award for his "captivating" book Goodnight Everyone (Walker Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hisham Matar has won the first £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his "profound and powerful" memoir The Return (Viking). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Labour politician Alan Johnson, professor Simon James of Durham University and journalist, critic and writer Anita Sethi are some of the names who will judge the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
David France's insider account of the AIDS epidemic, How to Survive A Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS (Picador), has been named the "unanimous" winner of the Green Carnation Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'formulating questions and providing warnings,' Canadian author Margaret MacMillan's work embodies the importance of history in today's political moment. The post ‘Nixon in China’ Historian Margaret MacMillan Named To Chair Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canada’s McGill University is re-launching the US $75,000 Cundill History Prize to highlight history writing as a way to illuminate the truth at a time when informed, factual debate is “increasingly losing out to populism and retrenchment is on the rise”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries (Vintage) has won the 2017 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, making it third time lucky for the author. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]