Her debut novel was rejected by publishers multiple times before winning the Desmond Elliott Prize. Continue reading at 'BBC News'
[ BBC News | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marcus Rashford MBE has been named FutureBook Person of the Year. The Manchester United and England footballer is the fourth recipient of the award after publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, writer Kit de Waal and Meryl Halls, m.d. of the Booksellers Association. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-06 05:03:55 UTC ]
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Manchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford MBE, who published his first book and launched a book club with Macmillan Children’s Books this year, talks to The Bookseller after being named FutureBook Person of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-05 19:06:34 UTC ]
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South African novelist Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Promise,' published by Europa Editions. The novel follows the lives of three white siblings brought together by a series of funerals that follow the trajectory of the history of post-apartheid South Africa. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize with The Promise (Chatto & Windus), hailed by judges as “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-03 11:06:30 UTC ]
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"This POC author was actually a blond white woman who didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with her act of brownface." Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-11-02 13:00:03 UTC ]
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The 2021 shortlists have been revealed for the Staunch Prize’s unpublished flash fiction and short stories without violence to women, while the original book prize is on hold until 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 12:22:21 UTC ]
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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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Criminal barrister Mohsin Zaidi and biographer Diana Souhami been announced the winners of the 2021 Polari Prizes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-31 03:47:55 UTC ]
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Kaycee Hill, Marjorie Lotfi and Yvette Siegert have won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize for young or emerging Black and minority ethnic poets. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 17:18:52 UTC ]
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8 books, ranging from memoir to pizza czar, history for young readers and lyrics by legends, are the finalists for B&N's Book of the Year. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-10-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Narjas Zatat and Shirley Hottier have been named the first place winners of the Faber & Andlyn (FAB) Prize for new writers and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds, as the award celebrates its fifth anniversary. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 11:33:27 UTC ]
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Dorothy Koomson, Juliet Pickering and Boldwood Books are among the winners of the Romantic Novelists’ Association annual Industry Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 05:18:16 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 perspective of Indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific oceans' give 'Waves Across the South' distinction, say British Academy jurors. The post Sujit Sivasundaram Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-27 11:40:47 UTC ]
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News and Events (c) Rama, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr NORMAN, OKLA. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday evening that Boubacar Boris Diop is the 27th... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-10-26 21:56:54 UTC ]
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Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram's "truly powerful" book Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins) has won the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 09:16:59 UTC ]
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Luke Kennard, Caleb Femi and Nicole Sealey have won the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-25 19:03:13 UTC ]
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Mitzi Angel, currently senior v-p and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will succeed Jonathan Galassi as president of the imprint on January 1. Galassi will remain with the imprint as chairman and executive editor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-25 04:00:00 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
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-24 13:44:56 UTC ]
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A Pulitzer Prize all but guarantees a book a wider audience. Not so long ago it could also mean a new edition as an audiobook. A look at the winners and finalists of the 2021 Pulitzers, however, shows how thoroughly readers, publishers, and authors have embraced this alternate form of reading.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-10-22 08:50:43 UTC ]
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