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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
The founders of the Jhalak Prize have said that smaller publishers are doing the “heavy lifting” when it comes to publishing “new, brave and unusual voices” from UK-based writers of colour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-03 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]