Jessie Childs has won the 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history for her book about religious persecution in Elizabethan England, God's Traitors (Bodley Head). She beat off competition from five other shortlisted authors to win the £2,000 annual prize, funded by former PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman’s bequest to English PEN, which celebrates the best non-fiction on a historical subject in any period up to the Second World War. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers will award cash prizes again after more than a decade, with the rules also changing to allow authors to nominate their own books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 00:27:57 UTC ]
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Ellen Clifford has won the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing with her book The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (Zed Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-29 01:12:22 UTC ]
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Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (her translator from Russian) feature twice on this year's longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, while Fitzcarraldo Editions, which has had a work longlisted every year of the prize, has four titles nominated in 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 20:49:22 UTC ]
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The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade has been awarded at midday on Sunday to the Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. The post In Frankfurt: Tsitsi Dangarembga Receives the German Peace Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Thriller author Rachel McLean has won the £20,000 Kindle Storyteller Award for her novel The Corfe Castle Murders after a "record number" of submissions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 09:39:42 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired Here Are the Words, the first YA and crossover poetry collection from bestselling poet and social media star Nikita Gill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 04:50:57 UTC ]
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Today, on what would have been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 92nd birthday, the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust announced a new annual prize in honor of the beloved writer: the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be awarded for the first time in 2022 and come with a $25,000 cash prize. […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Lucy Caldwell has won the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University, a prize she has been nominated for three times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-20 02:07:31 UTC ]
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Journalist and writer Darren Boyle has won Capital Crime's Amazon Publishing New Voices Award for his thriller The Black Pool, which is set in contemporary Dublin and follows a journalist who ventures deep into the murky world of gang-organised tiger raids. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 15:51:36 UTC ]
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This week, the winner of the Planeta Prize, a Spanish 1-million-euro literary award, was announced: Carmen Mola, a famously private crime thriller writer. All that was known about Mola, often referred to as Spain’s “Elena Ferrante,” is that she was a university professor in her mid-40s living in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Carmen Mola, a female novelist who won a €1m Spanish literary prize last week, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-17 22:43:39 UTC ]
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Sarah Winman has won the inaugural InWords Literary Award, for her "transcendent, utterly humane" novel Still Life (Fourth Estate). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-17 15:33:39 UTC ]
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Patrick Radden Keefe, Cal Flyn and Lea Ypi are among the six shortlisted authors for this year's £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-15 21:01:43 UTC ]
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Korean author Kim Hyo-eun has won the Professional Children’s Publishing category of the World Illustration Awards 2021, with her book I Am the Subway, translated by Deborah Smith and published in the UK by Scribble. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-13 05:13:06 UTC ]
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Abdulrazak Gurnah found out about his win over the phone but initially thought it was a cold caller. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2021-10-07 22:36:48 UTC ]
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Hannah Chukwu, assistant editor at PRH imprint Hamish Hamilton, has won the Arts & Media Rising Star award at this year's Black British Business Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-07 21:27:46 UTC ]
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The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with hybrid appearances at Coventry University and the Southbank Centre before the winner is announced at BBC Broadcasting House's Radio Theatre on the big night. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-07 15:34:41 UTC ]
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The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to the Tanzanian author whose English-language novels include “Paradise,” “By the Sea” and “Desertion.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-07 11:03:10 UTC ]
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Publishers speak of the profound effect the prize has had on Australia’s book industry in the decade since its establishmentOn International Women’s Day in 2011, a group of Australian women writers and editors appeared at a literary salon and spoke about their frustration at the male-dominated... Continue reading at The Guardian
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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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