Colm Tóibín Wins the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for ‘The Magician’

The Irish author of 'Nora Webster' and 'The Master,' Colm Tóibín, wins the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize. The post Colm Tóibín Wins the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for ‘The Magician’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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Dying doctor's memoir up for £30,000 prize

Bill Gates was "super-touched" by a moving tale shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Investment company Rathbones to sponsor Folio Prize

Rathbone Investment Management has been confirmed as the new sponsor of the Folio Prize, which will become the Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Han and Smith win £50,000 Man Booker International prize

The winner of the "newly evolved" Man Booker International Prize 2016 is The Vegetarian by South Korean author Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British novelist Hadley wins $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

UK writer Tessa Hadley has won a Windham-Campbell Prize, worth $150,000 (£107,000).  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iraq War book wins £25,000 writing prize

A former US Marine wins the biennial Warwick Prize for Writing for his book of short stories dealing with American experiences of the Iraq War. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pedersen's 'Guardians' wins $75,000 Cundill Prize

Canadian historian Susan Pedersen's The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press) has won the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alice Notley Wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

The Poetry Foundation has awarded Alice Notley the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which recognizes the outstanding lifetime achievement of a living U.S. poet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Akhil Sharma wins Folio Prize

Akhil Sharma has won the 2015 Folio Prize for Fiction for his novel Family Life (Faber & Faber). The prize, now in its second year, was awarded at a ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London this evening (23rd March). The Folio Prize aims to recognise and celebrate the best... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ali Smith wins £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize

Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction. Smith won the £10,000 award, now in its second year, for How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton), the two-part novel which lost out to Richard Flanagan on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Falconry book wins £20,000 prize

Author Helen Macdonald wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is for Hawk, a memoir about how becoming a falconer helped her deal with grief. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rylance-backed book wins £5,000 prize

A debut novel whose supporters include actor Mark Rylance and Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith wins a £5,000 award given annually to "fearless" writing. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Italy’s Claudio Magris Wins 2014 $150,000 FIL Prize

Italian writer Claudio Magris (b. 1939) has been awarded the 2014 Prize in Romance Languages by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL). Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jellybooks wins £25,000 technology prize

London based publishing start-up Jellybooks has won £25,000 from the Government-backed... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Guelzo Wins Inaugural $50,000 Military History Prize

Historian and professor Allen C. Guelzo's winning book was "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Saunders’ “Tenth of December” Wins Inaugural Folio Prize

George Saunders has been announced as the winner of The Folio Prize 2014 for Tenth of December (Bloomsbury), sponsored by The Folio Society. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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First £40,000 Folio Prize Shortlist Dominated by Americans

North Americans dominate the eight books vying for this year’s inaugural £40,000 Folio book prize from the UK, which is open to all English-language titles. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spain’s Clara Sánchez wins €601,000 Planeta Prize

Spanish author Clara Sánchez has won the 2013 Planeta Prize for her novel El cielo ha vuelto, a book about the nature of our economic and political environment. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yves Bonnefoy Wins $150,000 Guadalajara Book Fair Prize

Following a controversial choice last year, FIL comes back with an august winner for it's $150k prize for literature: French poet, essayist and critic Yves Bonnefoy. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Malaysia’s Tan Twan Eng Takes $30,000 Man Asian Literary Prize

Malaysia's Tan Twan Eng won Asia’s most prestigious literary prize with The Garden of Evening Mists. The prize, in its 6th year, is changing the perception of Asian literature say authors, publishers. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom McCarthy, James Salter win $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes

Tom McCarthy and James Salter are among the winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. Tom McCarthy and James Salter are among the winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, announced Monday at Yale University's Beinecke Rare... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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