The Monte-Cristo Literary Prize, a new program based in a prison class in France, names its first award-winning author. The post France’s Prix Monte-Cristo’s Inmate Jury Awards Its First Honor appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tana French, award-winning author of the Dublin Murder Squad series, has moved from Hodder to Viking for a standalone novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian McEwan, the award-winning author, has admitted feeling "a little dubious" about people being compelled to study his books, after helping his son with an essay about his own novel and receiving a C. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author and schoolteacher Pamela Butchart is set to go stratospheric in 2018, with a World book Day title and a Secret Seven revamp in the pipeline. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author, educator, activist, and musician Julius Lester, known for a body of work focused on African-American culture, as well as for his fierce advocacy for books for black children by black creators, died on January 18 at the age of 78. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
His Dark Materials novelist says today’s steep price cuts devalue authors’ work and cheapen the experience of readingWith more than two months to go before Philip Pullman’s long-awaited new novel from the world of His Dark Materials is published, pre-orders have sent La Belle Sauvage flying up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author and illustrator Lauren Child has been named as the next Waterstones Children’s Laureate, an honour she says she “wasn’t expecting”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers is publishing a new book with HarperCollins at the end of this year and has signed a new two-book deal with the publisher for future publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author, poet, and playwright Joyce Carol Thomas, whose works largely focused on family and the African-American experience, died on August 17. She was 79. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary world praises Miller for his intelligence, wit and literary acumen, and lasting pride in his Scottish rootsKarl Miller, founding editor of the London Review of Books, critic and award-winning author, has died, aged 83.After stints as literary editor of both the Spectator and the New... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]