Publisher Peter Usborne, novelist Anthony Horowitz and cookery writer Claudia Roden have all been awarded the CBE in the New Year's Honours list, while there are also awards for authors including Adele Parks, Onjali Q Raúf and Ann Cleeves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-31 16:08:34 UTC ]
Bloomsbury founder and chief executive Nigel Newton and former Children's Laureate Anthony Browne have been awarded CBEs for services to the publishing industry and to literature respectively in the New Year's Honours list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-30 02:25:11 UTC ]
Novelist Rose Tremain, who was made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list, has said the honour felt like "a gleam of light" after going through a difficult time with her health. Tremain was diagnosed with bile duct cancer and underwent a major operation in late October, which she is now... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-01 12:20:00 UTC ]
Novelist Rose Tremain has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list. Meanwhile poet and novelist Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar, receives a CBE. Sir Elton John, author of autumn memoir Me (Macmillan), is made a Companion of Honour. Among those receiving OBEs are artist and author David... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-27 17:04:32 UTC ]
His Dark Materials creator Philip Pullman has been knighted in the New Year's Honours list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s author Michael Morpurgo has been knighted in this year’s New Year's Honours List, while author and historian Lady Antonia Fraser and writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg have joined the Order of the Companions of Honour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian Antony Beevor has been knighted in the New Year's Honours list, and former Penguin UK m.d. Helen Fraser has been made a Dame. Beevor's honour was awarded "for services in support of Armed Forces Professional Development". while Fraser's is for services to Education, relating to her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Anthony Horowitz and K M Peyton have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's book awards time in the UK! The five Costa Book Awards were all won by women writers, while Queen Elizabeth’s New Years Honours List included several authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrator Quentin Blake is among the book trade figures who have been recognised in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]