Rathbone Investment Management has been confirmed as the new sponsor of the Folio Prize, which will become the Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Dylan has said that it is “truly beyond words” to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume has won the annual Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2015 for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some book publishers in Australia question whether the expense of entering the increasing number of book awards is worth the potential end result. The post How Rewarding Are Book Awards? Australia’s Industry Debates the Costs appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The organisers of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction has launched an academy to help find future winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brooklyn Arts Press is a one-man operation that, despite its scant resources, took home the National Book Award for Poetry this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A children’s book that combines maths and design activities has won this year’s Educational Writers Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Politicians Alan Johnson, Margaret Hodge, Melvyn Bragg and John Bew have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards, as voted for by MPs and members of the House of Lords. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baroness Lola Young OBE will chair the judges for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
India's Raymond Crossword Book Awards recognize 'exclusively Indian' writers across 10 categories—winners are chosen by a jury and by popular vote. The post Tripathi, Ghosh Top India’s Raymond Crossword Book Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
In three of Cambridge University Press' journals, Overleaf arrangement offers authoring tools. And eight awards are part of the FutureBook Conference. The post International Notes: Cambridge University Press and Overleaf; FutureBook Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sara Lloyd, digital and communications director at Pan Macmillan, has won FutureBook’s Digital Leader of the award, announced at this year’s FutureBook Conference Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill has sponsored a literary award since 2013, and recently increased the prize to $5,000 for the best debut novel about the South. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut thriller The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (Transworld) has been named as W H Smith's Book of the Year for 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent is named Waterstones Book of the Year ahead of a Beatrix Potter manuscript and a Harry Potter playscript. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Retailer Foyles has chosen Paul Beaty’s Man Booker Prize-winning The Sellout as its book of the year, so will promote the title heavily online and in-store in the run up to Christmas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers including AS Byatt and Philip Hensher say Commonwealth and British writers face greater struggle to find readers, now ‘dice are loaded’ AS Byatt, Philip Hensher and Susan Hill have joined authors backing Julian Barnes’s call for the Man Booker prize to exclude US writers once again, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer development organisation Spread the Word is launching a new nationwide Life Writing Prize, thanks to a donation from writer Joanna Munro and partnership support from Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, the Royal Society of Literature and Arvon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two-thirds of the shortlisted candidates in the UK's Costa Book Awards are women. And three in one category are former winners. The post Women Lead The Five Costa Book Award Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Surfing memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by New Yorker journalist William Finnegan (Corsair) has scooped the 28th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]