Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions launch $10,000 Novel Prize

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are launching The Novel Prize, a $10,000 biennial award for book-length fiction by published or unpublished authors. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 09:34:44 UTC ]

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Fitzcarraldo bags journalist's 'harrowing' debut about Kabul migrant trail

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PRH announces WriteNow cohort of unpublished authors

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Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions launch $10,000 Novel Prize

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are launching The Novel Prize, a $10,000 biennial award for book-length fiction by published or unpublished authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Fitzcarraldo, Tilted Axis and Peirene vie for EBRD prize

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Novel on resistance in Putin's Russia to Fitzcarraldo

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Fitzcarraldo signs 'angry novel for our angry times'

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