A novel banned by the Chinese government has made the longlist for the Independent Foreign... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for this year's £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize has been revealed, featuring Costa winner Monique Roffey, poet Caleb Femi and a double selection for Irish indie Tramp Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 01:24:56 UTC ]
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Peepal Tree is among the indie publishers to be longlisted for this year's Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-03 18:33:01 UTC ]
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Comma Press will publish The American Way: Stories of Invasion in May 2021, the first title in its History-into-Fiction series to step outside of British history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-19 23:34:53 UTC ]
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Earlier this year, we learned of the founding of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first English-language literary award to celebrate excellence in fiction by women writers in the United States and Canada. And today, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction announced that it has... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 17:54:45 UTC ]
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Indie-focused retail site Bookshop.org has now made more than £500,000 for stores in just over a month since its launch. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 05:04:07 UTC ]
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The Aspen Words Literary Prize is focused on authors whose work deals in cultural relevance and contemporary conditions. The post Aspen Words’ Issue-Driven Literary Prize: The 2021 Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-10 18:06:42 UTC ]
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A Canadian author of fiction will be awarded $100,000 in the comfort of their own home tonight as the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala goes virtual this year. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2020-11-09 17:43:21 UTC ]
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Xiaolu Guo and D B C Pierre are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, recognising the best in experimental fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Erika A. Niedowski, a former Sun foreign correspondent and Moscow bureau chief who was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist and later worked for The Associated Press, died Friday of undetermined causes at Rhode Island Hospital two days before her 47th birthday. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2020-10-06 21:08:37 UTC ]
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Today the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for its 2020 First Novel Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, recognizes the best debut fiction of the year, and it comes with $15,000; each finalist receives $1,000. Previous winners include De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Tommy Orange, and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-01 15:05:06 UTC ]
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Last but certainly not least: it’s the time for fiction! The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books contending for this year’s National Book Award for Fiction. The award, created in 1950, is the most prestigious literary prize in the United States, rewarding bold and cogent... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor have been shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize, in a selection packed with independent presses but featuring the notable absence of two-time winner Hilary Mantel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-15 08:26:08 UTC ]
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Six titles made the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, of which four are debuts. The list is also notably diverse, with four female finalists and four titles coming from independent publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Teenage author Dara McAnulty has become what is reckoned to be the youngest ever winner of a major literary award after scooping the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing with Diary of a Young Naturalist (Little Toller). Continue reading at The Bookseller
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'A diverse range of themes' and experimentation with form are reflected in the 2020 longlist announced by the jury of the German Book Prize. The post German Book Prize Jury Names 20 Novels to Its 2020 Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-18 12:59:15 UTC ]
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Deep Vellum Books, Europa Editions, and Transit Books—three independent publishing houses best known for their fiction in translation—are upping their nonfiction game. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and US novelist Anne Tyler are up against seven debut novelists, including Kiley Reid and Avni Doshi, on this year's longlist for the £50,000 award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Independent publisher Can of Worms has partnered with New York–based publisher Leapfrog Press for it's Global Fiction Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-20 02:58:34 UTC ]
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It’s been quite a year for Colson Whitehead! First, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (again) and then he received the Orwell Prize for political fiction. And now the Library of Congress is honoring him with their lifetime achievement prize. (Previous recipients include Toni Morrison, Denis... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-14 15:56:24 UTC ]
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The annual Prize for American Fiction, one of the LoC's most prestigious awards, honors an American literary writer "whose body of work is distinguished not only for its mastery of the art but also for its originality of thought and imagination." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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