Reclusive Italian writer Elena Ferrante and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk have been named on the six-strong Man Booker International Prize shortlist. Three titles from independent publishers feature on the list: Ferrante's The Story of The Lost Child, the final novel in her Neapolitan quartet, translated by Ann Goldstein (Europa); Pamuk's A Stranger in My Mind, translated from Turkish by Ekin Oklap (Faber); and Han Kang's The Vegetarian, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith (Portobello). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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A book on the the political uprisings in the Middle East has won an English PEN Award for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bloomsbury has been forced to pulp 6,000 copies of a novel after wrongly labelling it as the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John McCullough's poetry collection Frost Fairs has won the Polari First Book Prize 2012.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Simon & Schuster Children’s Books is predicting this Christmas and Boxing Day will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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An exposé of doping in professional cycling has won the William Hill Sports Book of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Sarah Hall and Jean Sprackland have been named the 2012 winners of the Portico Prize for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Fourth Estate author Hilary Mantel could be adding to her awards haul with a shortlisting for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jeet Thayil’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel Narcopolis (Faber) has reached the shortlist for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The shortlist for the 2012 Educational Writers’ Award has been announced today (19th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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EL James' best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey will compete with novels by Kate Mosse, JoJo Moyes and Bernard Cornwell at this year's National Book of the Year Awards. Continue reading at BBC News
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A gripping account of a doomed attempt to climb Mount Everest has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize. Continue reading at Stuff
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Erotica star E. L James will go head-to-head with authors such as Victoria Hislop, Bernard... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Wade Davis has won the £20,000 Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction for his book about... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Kerry Hudson's debut for Chatto has scored a second prize shortlisting in a week, with a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mumbai's slums, the Iraq war and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi are among the subjects covered by the five titles up for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women-only literary prizes have been created in both Canada and Australia to help balance the attention given to work by male authors vs. female authors. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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A debut novel from South Africa has joined the shortlist for this year's Green Carnation... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The awarding of this year's $150,000 FIL literature prize to Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique, an accused plagiarist, has divided writers and critics across Latin America. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Titles from Orchard Books and Jonathan Cape have won this year's Roald Dahl Funny Prizes,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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