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Obituary: Julie Anne Peters

Award-winning author Julie Anne Peters, best known for her groundbreaking YA novels featuring complex LGBTQ+ characters navigating relationships and exploring issues of identity, died on March 21 following a long illness; she was 71. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Eric Brown, science fiction author and Guardian critic, dies aged 62

Writers, publishers and agents pay tribute to a warm, generous figure, author of more than 50 books ranging from SFF to crime to children’s literatureEric Brown, a prolific, award-winning author who published more than 50 novels, children’s books and short story collections, and who was the... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2023-03-23 13:58:10 UTC ]
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Exclusive: See the cover for Bryan Washington’s new novel, Family Meal.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Bryan Washington’s latest novel, Family Meal, coming this fall from Riverhead Books. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-21 14:00:48 UTC ]
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Victor Navasky, award-winning author and editor of the Nation, dies at 90

Liberal lion won National Book Award and edited leftwing Nation, with writers including Hitchens and Cockburn, from 1978 to 2005Victor Navasky, an award-winning author and journalist who presided over the liberal US weekly the Nation and wrote influential books on the anti-communist blacklist... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2023-01-25 15:01:09 UTC ]
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Sandra Simonds on Piecing Together Poetic Puzzles

Sandra Simonds is the award-winning author of eight books of poetry: Triptychs (Wave Books, November 2022), Atopia (Wesleyan University Press, 2019), Orlando (Wave Books, 2018), Further Problems with Pleasure, winner of the 2015 Akron Poetry Prize from the University of Akron Press, Steal It... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-11-10 09:52:10 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘The Pachinko Parlor,” by Elisa Shua Dusapin

The National Book Award-winning author and translator of “Winter in Sokcho” return with another quietly powerful tale of dislocation. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-10-22 09:00:12 UTC ]
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7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Young Adult Readers

Kiersten White, the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of “The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein,” “Hide” and more, recommends a few of her favorite horror novels. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-10-01 09:00:17 UTC ]
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WATCH: Saeed Jones on the Apocalypse as a State of Being

Greenlight is thrilled to welcome award-winning author and long-time friend of the store Saeed Jones back to our Fort Greene events stage to celebrate the release of his new poetry collection, Alive at the End of the World. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, pierced by grief and charged... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-29 08:56:48 UTC ]
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Read Your Way Through Newfoundland

Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-07-20 09:00:09 UTC ]
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The Best Books to Take You Through Newfoundland

Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-07-20 09:00:09 UTC ]
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Jesmyn Ward has won the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing—has just become, at 45, the youngest ever winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The prize, which was established in 2008 as a lifetime achievement award, honors “an... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-07-01 17:08:35 UTC ]
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Shirley Hughes obituary

Prolific author and illustrator whose affectionate image of childhood has been instantly recognisable for more than 60 yearsShirley Hughes, who has died aged 94, was an award-winning author of more than 50 children’s books, and illustrator of some 200 more, with worldwide sales of more than 11m.... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2022-03-02 11:09:12 UTC ]
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Constituting the Human in a Dystopian World: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, by Lopamudra Basu

Book Reviews Photo by Dominik Scythe / Unsplash A new book by a Nobel laureate and Booker award-winning author always brings with it a sense of trepidation. Will the new novel live up to the already established high expectations? Klara and the... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2022-03-01 21:50:34 UTC ]
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Announcing The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist

Photo credit: Nigel DaviesSunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award marks the 30th anniversary with one of it's most decorated shortlists to date:• Irish novelist Megan Nolan for her darkly funny debut novel Acts of Desperation;• US-based writer Anna Beecher for her novel... Continue reading at 'British Council global'

[ British Council global | 2022-02-16 14:40:41 UTC ]
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Waterstones apologises after award-winning author Owusu asked for ID

Waterstones has apologised and said it is "deeply embarrassed" after award-winning author Derek Owusu was asked for ID in a London branch when he offered to sign copies of his books.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 01:22:08 UTC ]
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Sphere nets Epstein-inspired thriller from Marwood

Award-winning author Alex Marwood has written a Jeffrey Epstein-inspired psychological thriller for Sphere, The Island of Lost Girls, exploring the “obscene levels of wealth and the sex trafficking of vulnerable teenage girls”.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 23:48:26 UTC ]
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Howard named Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland

Award-winning author and illustrator Paul Howard, whose recent work includes Joe Wicks' debut picture book The Burpee Bears (HarperCollins Children's Books), has been appointed the new Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-31 03:43:57 UTC ]
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Richard Hammer, Who Illuminated the My Lai Massacre, Dies at 93

His books on that Vietnam episode drew acclaim, and he was an Edgar Award-winning author of nonfiction books about crime in its many manifestations. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2021-10-29 14:54:52 UTC ]
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The last time America broke apart: How author Kevin Boyle retold the 1960s

The award-winning author of 'Arc of Justice' talks about his new book, 'The Shattering,' and how he came to write history for people like his father. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-10-25 13:00:08 UTC ]
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Cynthia Leitich Smith to Headline 2021 Neustadt Lit Fest

News and Events World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host the 2021 Neustadt Lit Festival on Zoom from Oct. 25–27. The festival features numerous panels exploring the... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-10-11 18:55:28 UTC ]
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