Journalist turned publisher, whose achievements included editing Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark and Alan Clark’s Diaries, succumbs to cancer Ion Trewin, the journalist turned publisher who went on to run the Man Booker prize, has died aged 71, the trustees of the Booker prize foundation have announced.Trewin, who was diagnosed with cancer in October last year, kept all his irons in the fire almost until the end. His final journalistic assignment was the obituary of his Booker predecessor Martyn Goff, which appeared in the Guardian two weeks ago. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Author and conservationist Jacqueline Rohen, whose debut novel How to Marry Your Husband is published by Arrow this month, has died suddenly at her home in Uganda. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 07:16:06 UTC ]
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Bob Loomis, who began his career as an editor at Random House when company founders Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer were still running the publisher, died April 19 at age 93. Loomis retired from Random House in 2011. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The awarding of the £50,000 International Booker Prize ceremony is being postponed from May until later in the summer because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 00:41:32 UTC ]
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Today, the Booker Prize committee announced the shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize—awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. The prize, £50,000, will be split evenly between author and translator of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-02 13:21:22 UTC ]
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Six books, one each translated from Dutch, Farsi, German, and Japanese and two from Spanish, have made the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Four indie publishers—Fitzcarraldo, Charco Press, Europa and Faber & Faber—have made the six-strong shortlist for 2020's £50,000 International Booker Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 22:06:39 UTC ]
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The International Booker Prize is the latest prize to announce it is going digital in 2020 in wake of the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 20:18:15 UTC ]
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The author’s second novel, finally getting published in the United States, was first released in the United Kingdom in 2007. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-02 20:00:31 UTC ]
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Tributes have been paid to bestselling novelist Clive Cussler who has died, aged 88. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-26 20:16:36 UTC ]
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Each of the American author’s 56 novels was a bestseller and her fiction was extolled by writers from Scott Turow to David Foster WallaceMary Higgins Clark, the “Queen of Suspense” who topped charts with each of her 56 novels, has died at the age of 92.Simon & Schuster president Carolyn... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-03 11:54:59 UTC ]
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Philosopher and author Sir Roger Scruton has died at the age of 75 following a battle with cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 01:40:53 UTC ]
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Charles Sprawson, author of celebrated swimming memoir Haunts of the Black Masseur (Vintage), has died. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 07:22:55 UTC ]
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Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of bestseller Prozac Nation (Quartet), has died at the age of 52. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-07 14:09:30 UTC ]
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Lee Child will be a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize, it has been revealed, joining a panel including author Lemn Sissay and chaired by Margaret Busby. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 23:36:24 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has confirmed the death of Sonny Mehta, editor in chief of Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Mehta died yesterday (30th December) in Manhattan at the age of 77, from complications from pneumonia. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-30 16:18:01 UTC ]
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Writer and artist Alasdair Gray has died aged 85 with the trade paying tribute to the "cultural trailblazer" and his "forward-looking vision". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-29 14:08:36 UTC ]
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US romance novelist Johanna Lindsey has passed away at the age of 67, it has been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-23 19:54:52 UTC ]
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Author and You Magazine books editor Kate Figes has died from cancer at the age of 62. Figes wrote two novels and six works of non-fiction, including 2018’s On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions (Virago) which dealt with subjects including the diagnosis that her breast cancer had metastasised. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 01:54:33 UTC ]
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Celebrity chef and prolific cookery author Gary Rhodes has died at the age of 59. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-27 10:40:32 UTC ]
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Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, has said prizes like the Booker are for readers first and foremost, and that they should be treated as an investigation rather than an act of judgement shaping the canon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 12:59:25 UTC ]
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