Poet and playwright Kiran Millwood Hargrave has been named the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 for her debut novel The Girl of Ink and Stars (Chicken House). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles by Francis Spufford, Kit de Waal and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan have been longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Dylan will formally accept the Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend, following months of speculation over whether this would happen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has three books shortlisted for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by independent publishers dominate the shortlist for the £30k International Dylan Thomas Prize, with Waterstones Book of the Year author Sarah Perry named among them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Phoebe Roy has won Sceptre's "Sceptre Loves" short story prize for "It Was Summer", a story charting a relationship between two men as it changes with the seasons. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsmith Prize-winning novelist Mike McCormack joins others including Kit de Waal and Emma Donoghue on the €15,000 Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leaf Arbuthnot, author of An Unmaimed Man, has won Tibor Jones' 2017 Pageturner Prize for unpublished novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jacob Ross has won the inaugural Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour for his crime fiction novel The Bone Readers (Peepal Tree). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and broadcaster Anne Robinson is to chair the David Vaisey Prize, a new £5,000 award launched to recognise an "oustanding" Gloucestershire library initiative. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the fifth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winner in each of our two categories will be announced April 10; each winner will receive $1,000. The nominees were selected by Slate’s Jacob Brogan; the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
PRH authors Naomi Alderman and Hisham Matar have been longlisted for this year's Orwell Prize for Books, a £3,000 prize celebrating "the most compelling" political writing of 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's Laureate Chris Riddell could win the Kate Greenaway illustration medal for a fourth time. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Korean has been announced as the language for Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette and Penguin Random House have earned 11 shortlistings each in the British Book Awards’ Books of the Year awards, with Pan Macmillan garnering three nods and Faber and HarperCollins both winning two nominations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House and Hachette have both earned more than 20 shortlistings in The Bookseller's new-look 2017 British Book Awards, while Pan Macmillan has notched a company-record 13 nominations across trade and book categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 23 categories, the newly re-introduced British Book Awards are an uber suite of combined honors, known to some as the Nibbies. The post Long on Shortlists at London Book Fair: The Expanded British Book Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its unusual criteria of stories that "engage with some aspect of medicine, health, or illness," the Wellcome Prize is for fiction and nonfiction The post Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist Announced at London Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Kalanithi’s "life-affirming" memoir When Breath Becomes Air (The Bodley Head) is one of the six-strong shortlist for this year's Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oz’s first novel in a decade joins Kadare’s gruesome Ottoman tale in ‘ferociously intelligent’ selection – but one with very few womenA Chinese satire of communism, a retelling of the Robin Hood myth set in the Republic of Congo and a coming-of-age tale in a still-divided Jerusalem are among 13... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]