David Olusoga has won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017 for Black and British: A Forgotten History (Macmillan). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The re-launched Cundill History Prize received double the number of entries compared to last year, it has been revealed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claudia Winkleman has been unveiled as the head judge for Book People’s latest Bedtime Story competition with a theme of “friendship”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has awarded Amy Liptrot the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 for her "exhilarating and rigourously unsentimental" memoir The Outrun (Canongate). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil has won the £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing for a short story which explores freedom. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sandeep Parmar's Eidolon (Shearsman) has won the inaugural £5000 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize, the UK’s first prize dedicated to second poetry collections. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ingrid Persaud from Trinidad and Tobago has won 2017's Commonwealth Writers' Short Story Prize for "Sweet Sop". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winning essayist of the third £20k Notting Hill Essay Prize is William Max Nelson for his essay "Five Ways of Being a Painting". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Children’s and the Andlyn Agency celebrated the winners of the inaugural FAB Prize for BAME writers and illustrators last night (26th June) and revealed it will run again next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer, editor and translator Daniel Hahn is donating half his winnings from the International Dublin Literary Award to help establish a new prize for debut literary translation - the TA First Translation Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]