Today, the British Academy announced the 2024 shortlist for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. The international prize, now in its 12th year, celebrates “groundbreaking works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-09 23:01:00 UTC ]
Today, the British Academy announced the shortlist for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, an international book prize, now in its 11th year, that “celebrates ground-breaking research-based works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-12 00:00:56 UTC ]
Nick Walters at David Luxton Associates has been promoted to senior literary agent and rights manager in recognition of his "outstanding contribution" to the agency over the years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 12:55:15 UTC ]
Author, poet and hip hop artist Karl Nova has won the Ruth Rendell Award for his outstanding contribution to raising literacy levels in the UK in the last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 03:36:10 UTC ]
Hachette UK and the Booksellers Association have launched a new £5,000 Sceptre Bookshop Award for stores that make an outstanding contribution to their community. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 10:33:41 UTC ]
Illustrator Jan Pieńkowski will today be presented with the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to children's literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The American Library Assn. announced the winners of its annual children's awards on Monday, with Meg Medina's middle-grade novel "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" taking home the group's prestigious John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature. Medina's novel,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Michael Morpurgo is the winner of this year’s Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding contribution to the world of children’s books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The couple, whose children’s books include We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Borka, receive BookTrust’s first ever joint lifetime achievement awardTwo giants of children’s books, Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham, are to be honoured with the first ever double BookTrust lifetime achievement award.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dame Jacqueline Wilson has won the Special Award for her “outstanding contribution to children’s media” at the British Academy Children’s Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jane Harper, Mick Herron and Abir Mukherjee are among the authors honoured at the Crime Writers Association's 2017 Daggers awards, with Ann Cleeves recognised for her "outstanding contribution to crime fiction". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cecilia Ekbäck has won the 2016 Historical Writers' Association's Goldsboro Debut Crown for her Nordic noir thriller, Wolf Winter (Hodder). Meanwhile, the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award was presented to Philippa Gregory. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Palin, Bill Bryson and William Dalrymple are just some of the names already nominated for the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book Trust will tomorrow (7th July) present Shirley Hughes with a lifetime achievement award at a ceremony in London. The prize, which celebrates the body of work of an author or illustrator who has made an outstanding contribution to children literature, will be presented to Hughes for her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A “standout” Pan Macmillan and a resurgent Waterstones were two of the big winners at the Bookseller Industry Awards 2015, taking home the Publisher and Retailer of the Year prizes, respectively. Sam Husain, the recently retired c.e.o. of Foyles, was honoured with the BA Award for Outstanding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stanfords is relaunching the Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize, doubling its prize money, and creating a new award for travel writing. From 2015, the renamed Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award will carry a prize fund of £5,000. The revamped awards will also include the Edward... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]