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 ]
Corsair is publishing a new novel this year by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan called Manhattan Beach. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three début authors are up against children’s book heavyweights Malorie Blackman and Francesca Simon on the 10-strong YA Book Prize 2017 shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Cobby Eckerman and Carolyn Forché are the first poets to be recognised with the $160,000 (£130,000) Windham-Campbell Prizes, alongside six other writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yelena Moskovich has won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize 2016/17 for “Marlena or Number 16”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the name of the award implies, the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is dedicated to honoring notable works of non-fiction written by journalists. The winner among the just-announced five finalists, to be revealed May 22, will join a group that... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2017-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philippe Sands and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen have been chosen as joint winners of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate literary prize (worth £4,000). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Costa Book award winners Sebastian Barry and Francis Spufford have been longlisted for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A record breaking number of submissions has led to the highest ever number of regional shortlisted bookshops at the British Book Awards’ Independent Bookshop of the Year category, sponsored by Gardners Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Little, Brown chief executive Ursula Mackenzie, Front Row’s Samira Ahmed, television presenter June Sarpong and past Publishers Association c.e.o. Simon Juden are among the judges for the British Book Awards 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Peters Fraser & Dunlop will continue its sponsorship of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize until 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a time when literary fiction has a chance to illuminate the struggles and needs of many, the leading Arabic fiction prize's shortlist makes the point. The post The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s Shortlist: Strong on Issues appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The jury for this year's German Book Prize comprises seven jurors who will soon start reading. Deadline for applications: March 29. The post German Book Prize Names 2017 Jury: Nominations Are Ongoing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mohammed Hasan Alwan has been shortlisted for a second time for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo and Sarah Crossan are among the nominees for the Children’s Book Award 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones' 2016 Book of the Year, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, has been longlisted for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Goldsmiths Prize-winning Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Originals by Adam Grant, published by Ebury Press imprint W H Allen, has won the Chartered Management Institute’s Management Book of the Year Awards 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 18-strong shortlists for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 show a strong presence from independent Chicken House as well as publishers Hachette and Penguin Random House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from independents Faber, Peepal Tree Press, Chicken House and Jacaranda feature on the inaugural shortlist for the Jhalak Prize for a Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, alongside works from PRH's Harvill Secker and Pan Macmillan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]