Francis Spufford has won the Royal Society of Literature’s £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for his debut novel Golden Hill (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The combination of the UK's leading book industry awards with the 'Nibbies' produces The Bookseller's broad picture of a robust and busy books community. The post British Book Awards 2017: The ‘Nibbies’ Honor Literature and Industry appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry crowns a much-garlanded year for her gothic romp, honoured alongside authors including Kiran Millwood Hargrave and JK RowlingTwo word-of-mouth bookselling success stories – Sarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent and Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s young adult book The Girl of Ink and Stars... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (Serpent’s Tail) has won the British Book Awards accolade of Book of the Year, beating off strong competition from 36 shortlisted titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling says she's 'thrilled' to pick up an outstanding contribution award to add to her collection of literary accolades. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan and Waterstones are two of the biggest winners at this year's British Book Awards, aka The Nibbies, after being crowned Publisher of the Year and Book Retailer of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal (Viking), which was recently optioned by Lenny Henry's production company for television, has been shortlisted for 2017's £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Wales Book of the Year awards are to go ahead this year, following a review by administrator Literature Wales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Romeo Oriogun from Nigeria has won 2017's £3,000 Brunel International African Poetry Prize for his "complex and ultimately beautiful" writing on masculinity, sexuality and desire in the face of LGBT criminalisation and persecution. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The student shortlistees for the fifth Batsford Prize have been announced today, with 28 undergraduates and postgraduates at UK institutions contesting awards for Applied/Fine Art, Fashion, Illustration and, new for this year, Children’s Illustration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Conservative MP Philip Davies complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that the Jhalak Prize unlawfully discriminated against white people, it has emerged. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stella Duffy, Garth Greenwell and Kei Miller are among the names to have been shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC 6Music DJ Lauren Laverne is set to host this year’s British Book Awards, taking place on 8th May in a lavish ceremony at Grosvenor House in London’s Park Lane. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops have been praised by authors as “oases of intellectual and physical comfort” as the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award nominees have been released. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Masterful characterisation” and “subtle visual subplots” have won Isobel Evans, a third-year illustration student at the University of Hertfordshire, the Hachette Children’s Group Carmelite Picture Book Prize 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Formula One champion Damon Hill, Arsenal football legend Ian Wright, London 2012 Olympic Gold medallist Greg Rutherford and Olympic Games runner Jo Pavey have each been shortlisted for 2017's Cross Sports Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Small Death (Dar Al Saqi) by Mohammed Hasan Alwan has won the 10th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A "wonderfully diverse" set of book have been shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, spanning palaces and prisons, painting and politics, Petersburg and the provinces. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maylis de Kerangal’s Mend The Living, which explores the emotional and physical complexities of organ donation, has been named as the £30,000 winner of the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sunjeev Sahota, author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Year of the Runaways (Picador), is one of 12 authors honoured by the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]