The six-strong shortlist for the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award has been revealed, featuring yet-to-be-published authors from the UK, Spain, Argentina and Chile. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 07:41:55 UTC ]
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The Hay Festival has been cancelled owing to the coronavirus outbreak with organisers saying it is now in “immediate financial jeopardy” and has 10 days to raise emergency funds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-19 09:16:58 UTC ]
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The winners of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. Each will receive $165,000 each to support their work. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling, Zadie Smith and Jamie Oliver have made the shortlist for the British Book Awards "30 from 30" trophy that will crown one book the “best” of the past three decades. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-18 13:31:41 UTC ]
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The nine winners of the regional and country round of the British Book Awards Small Press of the Year accolade have been revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-18 11:49:39 UTC ]
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The winners of the London Book Fair Awards 2020 have been revealed with the LBF International Excellence Awards, CAMEOs and UK Book Blog Awards all taking place online after the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-11 02:01:11 UTC ]
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The Hay Festival is still going ahead as planned in May despite concerns around the spread of coronavirus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-09 22:17:03 UTC ]
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This year’s Prix Voltaire award shortlist has been revealed by the International Publishers Association (IPA). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-09 13:55:43 UTC ]
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On March 2 at the PEN Literary Awards ceremony, more than $330,000 in prize money and fellowships were awarded to a host of winning writers of all kinds. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Milly Johnson collected the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award tonight as HarperCollins triumphed to win three awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 12:00:27 UTC ]
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Prize announces shortlists and readies a special program at London Book Fair on the impact of prize programs on translation. The post The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020: Shortlists and a London Book Fair Event appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-02-27 14:30:31 UTC ]
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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has announced plans for a National Poetry Centre in Leeds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 09:42:34 UTC ]
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As the Hay Festival gets under way in Abu Dhabi, Stephen Fry and Noam Chomsky have signed an open letter calling on the UAE authorities to release imprisoned writers and demonstrate their commitment to free speech. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-25 05:08:26 UTC ]
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Little Women, Good Omens and Queenie are among the film, TV and audio adaptations shortlisted for the Creativity Across Media: Entertainment & Originality Awards (CAMEO) awards 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-19 03:06:07 UTC ]
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Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book worldIt could be almost the setup for a joke, but a former president, a Booker winner and an erotic fiction superstar have walked on to the British... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-14 06:01:23 UTC ]
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Rapper and beatboxer Testament has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors' Imison Award honouring the best original script for an audio drama by a new writer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-07 09:51:24 UTC ]
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Twenty books have won English PEN’s flagship translation awards, marking the highest number of awards ever given by the programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 23:56:40 UTC ]
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For Antrobus' 'commitment not just to recognizing difference but to the difficult act of forgiveness,' the Young Writer Award goes to poetry this year. The post In London, Raymond Antrobus Named 2019 Young Writer Award Winner appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-12-06 13:02:43 UTC ]
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Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading at British Council global
[ British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
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Author Alistair Humphreys and illustrator Kevin Ward have won the 2019 Educational Writers’ Award for Great Adventurers (Big Picture Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 10:42:56 UTC ]
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Multi-award winning poet Raymond Antrobus has been named winner of the 2019 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 08:18:28 UTC ]
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