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 ]
Leaf Arbuthnot, author of An Unmaimed Man, has won Tibor Jones' 2017 Pageturner Prize for unpublished novels.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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
The Folio Prize Foundation, in tandem with its sponsor Rathbone Investment Management, is to launch a mentorships programme for students at literacy charity First Story, with the Folio academicians acting as writing mentors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 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 ]
Bill Gates was "super-touched" by a moving tale shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Counternarratives by John Keene (Fitzcarraldo Editions) has won the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses, for its "once in a generation achievement for short form fiction". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
First Republic of Consciousness award to honour small presses recognises the London independent for short story collection Counternarratives by John KeeneSet up to reward “brave, bold and brilliant” small presses for taking risks on “niche fiction”, the inaugural Republic of Consciousness prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Penderyn Music Book Prize has announced its 2017 shortlist which includes titles from music journalists Hattie Collins, Stuart Cosgrove and David Hepworth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Corsair has acquired Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose for hardback publication in August 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has longlisted three former winners of the prize, Eimear McBride, Rose Tremain and Linda Grant, for 2017's award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dave Eggers, Valeria Luiselli, Jacqueline Woodson and Nick Flynn are among those who will be judging the 2017 National Book Awards. The National Book Foundation announced the new roster of 20 judges Monday. They include authors, some whom are previous National Book Award winners and finalists,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]