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'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 17:16:08 UTC ]
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Debut authors Natasha Brown and Rebecca Watson are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, recognising the best in experimental fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-06 21:50:51 UTC ]
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The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 awardAlex Clark explores how the Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our ageJust one British author has made the shortlist for this year’s Booker prize: Nadifa... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-14 15:25:06 UTC ]
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Barbara Kingsolver and Daisy Lafarge are in the running for Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s Laurel Prize, with the longlist dominated by indie presses from across the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 12:47:12 UTC ]
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Sathnam Sanghera, Arifa Akbar and Patrick Radden Keefe are among the authors on this year’s 13-strong Baillie Gifford Prize longlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-09 11:28:51 UTC ]
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The longlist for the German Book Prize includes five authors' debuts, and a focus on both 'origin and history' and contemporary concerns. The post German Book Prize Names Its 2021 Longlist: ‘A Broad Bouquet’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-08-24 11:55:32 UTC ]
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The longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced, including four American authors. The prize is worth £50,000. A shortlist of six will be announced on September 14, and the winner on November 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette has announced the longlist of 12 writers in contention for the £2,500 Mo Siewcharran Prize, which was launched in 2019 to discover unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 23:42:18 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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Paul Mendez, Kae Tempest and Douglas Stuart are among the authors who have been longlisted for this year's Polari Prizes, the UK's dedicated awards for LGBTQ+ literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 10:50:56 UTC ]
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Merlin Sheldrake, Anita Sethi and David Attenborough are among authors to be longlisted for the Wainwright Prizes this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 08:48:31 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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Simon & Schuster UK has collaborated with the Jhalak Prize in its Books to Readers programme, which aims to boost sales and visibility for longlisted writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-25 00:26:21 UTC ]
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Shola von Reinhold wins the award for small publishing houses with their novel LOTE, but financial reward split among 10 publishersThe Scottish author Shola von Reinhold has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for their “dazzling” queer debut novel LOTE. But the £20,000... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-05-19 12:17:35 UTC ]
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The shortlist for the International Booker Prize, an award for the best translated work of fiction, includes two books each translated from French and Spanish, and one each from Russian and Danish. The winner will be announced June 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Monique Roffey, Adam Mars-Jones and James Boyce are among authors who have been longlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-15 16:24:20 UTC ]
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Titles from Dialogue Books and Granta have made the longlists for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-10 00:25:15 UTC ]
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Today, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, announced the longlist for its annual award, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. The winner... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-03-10 20:25:29 UTC ]
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Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain and The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, both published by Chatto & Windus, are among titles longlisted for this year's £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 15:59:07 UTC ]
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The Klaus Flugge Prize, awarded to the "most promising and exciting newcomer" in children’s picture book illustration, has longlisted 20 books from illustrators whose debuts span friendship, love, family, the natural world and tales of daring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 05:20:34 UTC ]
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