Interviews Get to know the jurors for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature in this series of short interviews. First up: Tanita S. Davis! Tanita S. Davis was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-09-01 14:10:14 UTC ]
A book written in a child's voice wins the 2020 International Booker Prize, its author from a devoutly religious Dutch farming family. The post Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-26 16:17:28 UTC ]
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. It comes with a whopping £50,000—shared equally between the author and translator. This year, the judges read 124 books in 30 languages. In a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-26 16:02:37 UTC ]
'Too Much and Never Enough,' a book written about President Trump by his niece, is dark right from the get-go. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-07-09 18:03:41 UTC ]
Today, the Booker Prize committee announced the shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize—awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. The prize, £50,000, will be split evenly between author and translator of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-02 13:21:22 UTC ]
FOR A BOOK WRITTEN in the past five years, Robert Menasse’s The Capital, published for the first time in the United States last month in a translation by Jamie Bulloch, feels strangely dated. In the time it’s taken the novel to win the 2017 German Book Prize and be translated into English, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-11 19:00:17 UTC ]
More than any of the contemporary so-called Brexit novels, it’s ‘The Ice Age,’ a book written more than forty years ago, that offers the most haunting portrait of our current era of unrest. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2019-09-12 17:14:06 UTC ]
A book written by a North Canterbury author is up for a special international business book award in London next week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Messaging apps aren't just useful for everyday communication -- in at least one case, they've enabled an influential book. Kurdish-Iranian author Behrouz Boochani has won Australia's top literary award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, with a boo... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt says case of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is a top priorityThe foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has pledged to make the fight to release of two Reuters journalists imprisoned by the Burmese government a top priority for the coming year.Last week, Hunt met the human rights... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent poetry publisher Nine Arches Press is to publish Heath, a new book written in collaboration between poets Penelope Shuttle and John Greening. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Maria Lax discovered a book written by her grandfather about UFO sightings in her hometown, she knew she had to learn more. The post UFO Sightings Inspired These Eerie Photos appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
With her prizewinning debut, Claire Fuller could be following in the footsteps of Ian Rankin and Hilary Mantel who found success with their later work – but only with the support of her publisherAs one of the judges for the Desmond Elliott prize for best debut novelist this year, I couldn’t help... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s personal diary, which was published Tuesday by Little, Brown, is being billed as the first book written by a Guantánamo detainee. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury Press has acquired a book written by the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 03/10/2011 - 17:16 Cornerstone has acquired a book written by Tottenham MP David Lammy about the 2011 riots. Guardian Books acting publisher Katie Roden acquired world rights in Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots by Lammy through... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell A children's book written by Jo Nesbo is among the choices in Richard and Judys Childrens Book Club, which launched in W H Smith today [27th January]. The husband-and wife television presenting team are working alongside the charity Booktrust, to encourage more... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]