George Saunders has become the second American author to win the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’. This evening (6th October) he was presented with the prize of £15,000 by this year’s Chair of Judges Allan Little at a ceremony held in the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London. The news was announced live on BBC... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Bradley has won the £20,000 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2015. Bradley won the prize for his essay “A Eulogy for Nigger”. The essay was written in response to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People burial of the word in 2007. Bradley’s essay is described... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glasgow-based author Kirsty Logan has won the Polari First Book Prize 2015 for her short story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (Salt Publishing). Now in its fifth year, the Polari First Book Prize celebrates the best debut books exploring the LGBT experience, whether through... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500, and the winner will receive a further £50,000. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Worsley’s novel She Rises has been awarded the New Angle Prize for Literature. The biennial prize, established in 2009, celebrates the literature of East Anglia. Worsley won the £2,000 prize for her novel She Rises, which was published by Bloomsbury in March 2014. She Rises is a “love... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zia Haider Rahman's debut novel In the Light of What We Know wins the prestigious James Tait Prize for fiction. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A novel with an anti-whaling message has taken the title of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At age 99, renown indie publisher George Braziller looks back on 70 years in the book business, and a career that saw him rub shoulders with Sartre and PicassoHe pursued Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris, dined with Pablo Picasso in Antibes, and rescued New Zealand’s Janet Frame from the manuscript... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retailers have praised the 2015 Man Booker Prize longlist as “excellent” and containing a “rather lovely mix” of publishers. However literary agent David Godwin has said the dominance of US writers on the list means people's “worst fears have come to pass”. The longlist was announced yesterday... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bill Clegg, Anne Enright, Marlon James, Laila Lalami, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Andrew O'Hagan, Marilynne Robinson, Anuradha Roy, Sunjeev Sahota, Anna Smaill, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara are this year's Man Booker "Dozen", longlisted for the £50,000 prize. There are five US authors on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Family, identity and the past are among the themes addressed by the books on this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist. The 13 books, known as the Man Booker Dozen, tackle a variety of subjects, time spans and countries. There are seven women on the list and five US-based authors. The UK is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler, Hanya Yanagihara, and literary agent Bill Clegg are among the U.S. writers longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hosted by Joe Haddow, producer of the BBC's Radio 2 Book Club, the episodes will go live alternate Friday mornings from July 24 through to the winner announcement in October. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leopold Blue, a coming-of-age story set in South Africa, wins the 2015 Branford Boase Award for an outstanding debut children's novel. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Fuller has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015 for her novel Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree). Our Endless Numbered Days was described by chair of the judges Louise Doughty as "both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has won the £3,000 PEN Ackerley Prize 2015 for his memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). The prize, the UK's only literary prize devoted to memoir and autobiography, had also shortlisted Other People's Countries by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shin Kyung-sook had earlier denied using material by Yukio Mishima, but has now apologised, saying ‘I can’t believe my own memory’Shin Kyung-sook, an internationally renowned South Korean novelist who won the $30,000 (£19,000) Man Asian literary prize four years ago, has apologised to her... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Real-life historical adventures inspire both winners of this years CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway medals, Tanya Landman and William Grill. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Spurling has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel set in imperial China, The Ten Thousand Things (Duckworth), a book which is said to have been rejected 44 times by publishers. Spurling beat off competition from Martin Amis, Helen Dunmore, Hermione... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ali Smith has won the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction with How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton). Smith was announced as the 20th winner of the £30,000 prize this evening (3rd June) at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, London, hosted by broadcaster, author and DJ Lauren Laverne. Shami... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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