Out of an impressive shortlist, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has won 2024’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Flanagan’s wide-ranging memoir and history weaves together H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, pre-war nuclear physics, his father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the American...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-19 22:15:16 UTC ]
Today, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, announced the longlist for its annual award, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. The winner...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-10 20:25:29 UTC ]
The Arthur C. Clarke Award, named in honor of the eponymous author, is the United Kingdom’s most prestigious prize for science fiction first published in the UK. The prize comes with an award plaque and a cash prize of £2020.00. Previous winners include Yoon Ha Lee, Ahmad Saadawi, and Anne...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-23 19:55:57 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize is running a competition for independent bookshops with a cash prize of £1,000.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A store in northern Maine wins a cash prize; college students petition for a Barnes & Noble; Houston gets a new Latino bookstore; and more.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frankfurt Book Fair has launched a Global Illustration Award, with a cash prize of €10,000 for the first-prize winner.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]