Former home secretary Alan Johnson has won the Orwell Prize for Books with childhood memoir, This... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Rebanks and Merlin Sheldrake have won this year's Wainwright Prizes for nature and conservation writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-07 21:41:04 UTC ]
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The prize-winning Scottish children’s author Cathy MacPhail has died at the age of 75 following a long illness. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-31 17:49:46 UTC ]
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Faith Shearin has won the Young Adult Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize for both of her entries Lost River, 1918 and Horse Latitudes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-26 08:47:53 UTC ]
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Shola Von Reinhold has won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction for "tour de force" debut Lote (Jacaranda), while Doireann Ní Ghríofa has taken the Biography award for the "luminous" A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 04:22:39 UTC ]
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Chicago-based writer K L Anderson has won the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize for her novel But First You Need a Plan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-20 18:19:20 UTC ]
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The UC-Berkeley professor wrote deeply researched books about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-14 05:31:09 UTC ]
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Claire Wilcox has won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2021 for her "vivid" memoir Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Bloomsbury). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-04 21:28:36 UTC ]
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Ali Smith has won the inaugural Pleasure of Reading Prize, in recognition of her body of work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 20:56:05 UTC ]
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A K Blakemore has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "stunning" historical fiction novel The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:06:17 UTC ]
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Elle McNicoll has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 for her debut novel A Kind of Spark (Knights Of). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 15:03:18 UTC ]
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Kanya D’Almeida has been declared the overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for a "captivating" tale set in a Sri Lankan "sanctuary for the forsaken". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 08:05:28 UTC ]
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The Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga is to receive the 2021 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for her work that examines 'global questions of justice.' The post Zimbabwe’s Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins German Book Trade Peace Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-21 18:39:48 UTC ]
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Santanu Battacharya has won Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2021, with "The Nicer One", hailed by judges as a "gut-punch of a piece". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-09 14:59:56 UTC ]
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Sudhir Hazareesingh has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, with the award clinched for a second year in a row by an Allen Lane title. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-09 10:57:46 UTC ]
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Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2021 for her "cultural significance" charting "the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled-free state". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 05:20:07 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury and Granta have three titles each shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and Political Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-28 23:46:28 UTC ]
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Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates have won the Richard Jefferies Society & the White Horse Bookshop's Literary Prize for nature writing with their book Orchard: A Year in England's Eden (William Collins). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-24 15:30:01 UTC ]
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The Littlest Yak by debut author Lu Fraser and illustrator Kate Hindley (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books) has won the £10,000 Oscar’s Book Prize 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-11 04:12:57 UTC ]
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Heather McCalden has won the £3,000 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & Lewitt Studios Essay Prize with "The Observable Universe". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-11 02:52:24 UTC ]
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In its fourth year, the issue-driven Aspen Words Prize goes to fiction based in the Native American struggle for tribal self-determination. The post Louise Erdrich Wins the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-22 02:23:20 UTC ]
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