Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz tied for the Fiction prize, and 'Washington Post' journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa's took home the Nonfiction prize at this year's Pulitzer Prize ceremony on May 8. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Tributes have flooded in for the much-loved writer, who wrote more than 40 books for children and adults including the recent Be the Change handbooksAuthor Marcus Sedgwick, who wrote more than 40 books for children and adults, has died aged 54. His literary agency RCW has confirmed his death,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-11-17 13:02:14 UTC ]
Tess Gunty received the fiction prize for her debut, “The Rabbit Hutch.” Art Spiegelman, the author of “Maus,” received a lifetime achievement award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-11-17 12:12:22 UTC ]
Independent publisher Influx Press is launching a new fiction prize for Black British women, in partnership with lifestyle platform Black Ballad. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-27 19:32:32 UTC ]
This August, Ecco will publish 'Afterparties,' the debut story collection by Anthony Veasna So, who died unexpectedly last year at 28. His colleagues, friends, and loved ones are working to honor his memory—including with the launch of a new fiction prize in his name at 'n+1' magazine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Anna Burns is the bookies' favourite to win the £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction, with the latest odds from William Hill putting Milkman (Faber) at 6/4. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-30 07:48:44 UTC ]
Joan Silber won the fiction prize, Frances Fitzgerald won the nonfiction award, Layli Long Soldier won the poetry award and John McPhee was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the NBCC's award ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucy Cavendish College, part of the University of Cambridge, has named the 2017 winner of its fiction prize as Sarah Ward, with her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Louise Erdrich won the fiction prize, Matthew Desmond won for nonfiction; and Margaret Atwood received the lifetime achievement award at the National Book Critics Circle Awards ceremony last night in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Malorie Blackman’s latest novel is among those longlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction prize, alongside titles from Alex Wheatle and Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coates' 'Between the World and Me' and Johnson's 'Fortune Smiles' won the nonfiction and fiction awards, respectively, at this year's National Book Awards. Johnson's work is the second short story collection in two years to win the fiction prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Dark Wild' by Piers Torday has won the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, announced Thursday evening in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Caroline Casey, Coffee House Press managing director, talks to PW about Eimear McBride's debut novel, "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing," which recently won this year's Baileys Women's Fiction Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Frances Lincoln, Templar, Walker and Random House UK have been shortlisted for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orange will not renew its title sponsorship of The Women's Prize for Fiction after this year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable has won the Pulitzer Prize for history, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades, but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]