The entry rules for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize have been changed to extend beyond authors born in the UK or Republic of Ireland with competition bosses eager to have a wider range of voices and greater diversity in texts. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Caroline Bird has won the £10,000 Forward Prize for Best Collection with her “audacious” The Air Year (Carcanet). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-25 06:49:35 UTC ]
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He fostered the careers of more than a dozen Nobel laureates, including Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-10-23 16:26:04 UTC ]
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Nine writers have made the shortlist for the biennial Women Poets' Prize, hailed for their “ambitious, experimental and ground-breaking” work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 20:47:16 UTC ]
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Six books will vie to win the 42nd Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 18:15:14 UTC ]
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Guardian Weekend magazine and gal-dem are launching a memoir writing competition for UK-resident black women and black non-binary people aged 16-21 on the theme of ‘conversations’Calling all young black women and black non-binary writers aged 16-21. The Guardian is once again collaborating on a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-10-22 11:23:42 UTC ]
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News and Events Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-10-20 23:56:14 UTC ]
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William Dalrymple, Vincent Brown and Camilla Townsend have been announced as the 2020 finalists for the $75,000 (£58,000) Cundill History Prize, the highest value non-fiction award in the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 15:27:01 UTC ]
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Bernardine Evaristo will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HQ will publish the debut novel Ginger and Me from Elissa Soave, who won the inaugural Primadonna Prize in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 12:13:54 UTC ]
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In the 2021 Orwell Prizes, writer, academic and broadcaster Delia Jarrett-Macauley is to chair the Political Fiction judging panel while Anand Menon, a professor at King's College London and director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative, chairs the judges for the Political Writing Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-18 12:33:56 UTC ]
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The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with appearances via “Front Row”, social media and Guardian Live alongside readings from the Old Vic on the big night. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-16 04:23:16 UTC ]
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The UK literary prizes are still coming in hot! Today, the Baillie Gifford Prize announced its 2020 shortlist. The award, founded in 1999 following the end of the NCR Book Award for Nonfiction, celebrates the best non-fiction writing in the English language of the year. The honor comes with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-15 16:30:50 UTC ]
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The Paris commercial court has rejected the demand by Vivendi SE and the UK's Amber Capital for Hachette Livre parent company Lagardère SCA to hold an early extraordinary shareholders meeting. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 11:42:49 UTC ]
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The 10-book shortlist for this year's £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for poetry has been revealed, ranging across nine publishers and featuring two picks from Granta. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 04:28:46 UTC ]
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Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Polari Prizes, the UK’s only award celebrating literature that explores the LGBTQ+ experience. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 20:08:17 UTC ]
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Today, Longwood University announced that Aleksander Hemon has been named the winner of the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. The prize is Longwood University’s premier literary award—the largest literary award of any Virginia college or university; it aims to honor “an underappreciated... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The 2020 German Book Prize was awarded to Anne Weber for her 'breathtaking' and 'epic' biography of Anne Beaumanoir. The post German Book Prize 2020 Goes to Anne Weber appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-12 18:49:09 UTC ]
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“The Perfect Nine” tells the tale of Gikuyu and Mumbi, progenitors of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-12 06:09:05 UTC ]
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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück for her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-08 10:25:08 UTC ]
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." This story is developing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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