Booker Prize longlist includes Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Valeria Luiselli

The Booker Prize Foundation revealed the longlist for its literary award Tuesday, with Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Valeria Luiselli and Jeanette Winterson among the nominees. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-24 19:43:58 UTC ]

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Salman Rushdie's upcoming memoir delays trial of man charged in 2022 stabbing

The trial of the man suspected in the near-fatal stabbing of Salman Rushdie has been delayed because of the writer's upcoming memoir about the knife attack. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Patricia Engel has won the 2023 John Dos Passos Prize.

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‘It is a beast that needs to be tamed’: leading novelists on how AI could rewrite the future

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Anuja Varghese's short story collection Chrysalis among $25K Governor General's Literary Award winners

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea Wins Goncourt Prize For “Veiller Sur Elle”

The prestigious French literary award went to “Watching Over Her,” or “Veiller Sur Elle,” an almost 600-page novel set in 20th-century Italy. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Ananda Devi Wins the 2024 Neustadt Prize

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At Frankfurt: Salman Rushdie’s News Conference

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Book Deals: Week of October 16, 2023

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Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the attempt on his life will be published next year.

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Salman Rushdie to Write Memoir About Stabbing Attack

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Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022

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Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2023 Insider Prize, Selected by Nickolas Butler

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Here’s the shortlist for the 2023 Dos Passos prize.

This week, Longwood University announced the finalists for the 2023 John Dos Passos Prize, which is the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university, and which honors “one of America’s most talented but underappreciated writers…whose work offers incisive, original commentary... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Daniel Kehlmann: The German Peace Prize’s Salman Rushdie Speech

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New Voices Dominate Booker Prize Nominations

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Margaret Atwood among thousands of authors demanding compensation from AI companies

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James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights

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The German Book Trade’s Peace Prize: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is to be honored in Frankfurt with the German book trade's Peace Prize on October 22, for 'His Indomitable Spirit.' The post The German Book Trade’s Peace Prize: Salman Rushdie appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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