News and Events Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. Awarded in alternating years with the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the biennial NSK Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the world of children’s and young adult literature. Leitich Smith is a New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling YA author of the Tantalize series and Feral trilogy. She was named Writer of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for Rain Is Not My Indian Name and won the American Indian Youth Literature Award for Young Adult Books for Hearts Unbroken, which also was named to YALSA’s Amelia Bloomer list and received the Foreword Reviews Silver Medal in Young Adult Fiction. In addition, she is the author-curator of Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, which will launch its first list in winter 2021. Leitich Smith lives in Austin, Texas, and is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation. “A powerful and brilliant choice to win the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature,” said RC Davis-Undiano, executive director of WLT. “Cynthia Leitich Smith is a writer opening doors for other indigenous writers.“She is also finding ways to open those doors wider for... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2020-10-20 23:56:14 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust is urging more fathers to get involved with their children’s reading, after a survey revealed that only a third of dads said they have the most influence over their child’s literacy development. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber Children’s has bought a middle-grade fantasy series by Kieran Larwood, the author of Freaks (Chicken House). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Europa Editions is to publish a children’s book by Elena Ferrante titled The Beach at Night. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder Children's Books has bought an epic science fiction teen novel from Sif Sigmarsdottir, who is a bestselling author in her native Iceland and is now writing in the English language for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book about the career of a vaudeville trio wins a prize for having the oddest book title of the year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A biography of a musical hall act has beaten an academic treatise on the human posterior in the closest race ever for The Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author David Solomons has won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2016 for his novel My Brother is a Superhero (Nosy Crow). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s, Oxford University Press and JS Group were all honoured at the annual Academic, Professional and Specialist Awards, held at Wotton House in Surrey last night (17th March). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Revenue at Quarto Group rose 6% in 2015, to $182.2 million. Revenue in Quarto's children's division jumped 41%, with sales of adult coloring books particularly strong. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bethany Buck, a veteran of the children's publishing industry, will join Skyhorse Publishing as editorial director of its children’s imprint on March 21. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiona Noble argues for the introduction of separate YA and Children's Carnegie medals. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's book editors from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: apply for the German Book Office New York editor's trip by April 11, 2016. The post Apply Now for the 2016 Children’s Book Editor’s Trip to Germany appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a California sweep, both 165-year-old Books Inc., the oldest bookstore in the West, and Lise Solomon with the Karel/Dutton Group took this year’s PW Awards, which will be presented at BookExpo America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s book sales in Ireland increased 16% in 2015, boosted by the popularity of authors such as David Walliams and Jeff Kinney, but booksellers and publishers in the country say strong local publishing is also on the rise. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jackie Kay has been appointed as the National Poet for Scotland, known as the Scottish Makar. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cathy Rentzenbrink and Stephen Silberman are among six shortlisted authors for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize, awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction whose central theme "engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has acquired The Royal Rabbits of London, the first children’s book by Santa and Simon Sebag Montefiore. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publishers Bloomsbury Children’s and David Fickling Books are leading the shortlist for this year’s Bookseller’s YA Book Prize, run in association with book printer Clays. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We spoke with a number of Bologna-bound literary agents about the trends they’re seeing and the books they’re selling. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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