Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With her novel First Love, the 39-year-old author joins eminent former winners including Seamus Heaney and Alice OswaldGwendoline Riley’s unsparing depiction of an abusive relationship in her novel First Love has won her the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize.First Love, the English author’s fifth... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by Hay Festival founder Peter Florence, the 2019 Man Booker Prize jury features a pianist and composer, a filmmaker, a broadcaster and a publisher. The post Man Booker Prize for Fiction Announces Its 2019 Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has returned for a second year, newly expanded, with partners across the world and a new residency in Andalucia. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kamila Shamsie has been awarded 2017's £10,000 London Hellenic Prize, given to the best book inspired by or relating to Greece, for Home Fire (Bloomsbury). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guy Ware's short story "the year of peace" has been crowned the winner of 2018's London Short Story Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ten editors from publishers such as Nosy Crow, Penguin Random House and Little Tiger have won a place on a funded scouting trip to Bologna to look for foreign-language titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the first time in the 40-year life of the world’s most prestigious literary gong, a foreign-language tome, Joy of Waterboiling, has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Esi Edugyan won the Giller Prize, considered one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, for her novel "Washington Black" on Monday night at a gala ceremony in Toronto. The prize comes with an award of $75,000. Edugyan's novel follows an 11-year-old slave on a Barbados sugar... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author won the C$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel 'Washington Black.' Edugyan previously won in 2011 for her novel Half-Blood Blues, making her the third two-time Giller winner. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book about optical illusions has beaten off competition from titles about space and dinosaurs to win this year’s £10,000 Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvard professor Serhii Plokhy has won this year’s £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for his account of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thames & Hudson will publish the debut picture book, The Star in the Forest, by Glasgow-based author and illustrator Helen Kellock. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Global TV production company Fremantle has become a sponsor of the Women’s Prize for Fiction for 2019, as the award transforms into a charity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French journalist Philippe Lançon makes his first public appearance since the 2015 attack in Paris. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kapka Kassabova's "extraordinary" book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta) has won the British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Orwell Foundation will next month launch a prize to celebrate novels or short stories that illuminate social and political themes through the art of narrative. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new literature award, the JCB Prize goes to the work of a Kerala author who writes about issues and personalities in the Middle East. His newest book is from Juggernaut. The post Author Benyamin’s ‘Jasmine Days’ Wins Inaugural JCB Prize for Literature in India appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) is partnering with New Writing North (NWN) on a new prize for debut children’s writers who live and work in the North of England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist and short story writer Benyamin has won the inaugural JCB prize for Literature in India. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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University of East Anglia creative writing student Femi Kayode has won the £3,000 Little, Brown Award for crime fiction for the manuscript for his "shocking and emotional story", Lightseekers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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