Lit Hub is excited to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. This year’s judging panel included Tommy Orange, Emma Straub, Monique Truong, Maaza Mengiste, and Claire Messud. They are: De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-26 13:59:29 UTC ]
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Kings Road Publishing is launching a new non-fiction imprint this autumn called 535, hoping to turn "leftfield ideas" into bestsellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic UK has bought two books from Australian writer Matilda Woods and has sold her debut to 10 territories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winning essayist of the third £20k Notting Hill Essay Prize is William Max Nelson for his essay "Five Ways of Being a Painting". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gui Minhai, the Hong Kong-based publisher and bookseller kidnapped by Chinese agents in October 2015, and still in detention in China, features on this year’s shortlist for the International Publishers Association’s Prix Voltaire. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publons and Springer Nature’s content-sharing initiative SharedIt are both on the shortlist for The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christian fiction publisher Gilead has been given new life via a publishing partnership with Kregel Publications that will see a division of tasks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Honoring fortitude in the face of challenges to freedom of expression, the IPA Prix Voltaire can recognize both people and institutions. The post International Publishers Association Announces Prix Voltaire Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber Children’s and the Andlyn Agency celebrated the winners of the inaugural FAB Prize for BAME writers and illustrators last night (26th June) and revealed it will run again next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some movie stars come to New Zealand for the adventure, others for the spectacular scenery. Not Timothy Spall. First thing he does when he's here for work is take advantage of our cheap underwear. Speaking for the first time about his time in Christchurch last Spring making an adaptation of... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Borough Press has acquired two novels with an "international focus": The Nine-Chambered Heart by Indian author Janice Pariat and Stephen Florida by Publishers Weekly fiction reviews editor Gabe Habash. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New recognition for efforts that Sharjah's royal family and civic leadership have made, Sharjah follows Athens 2018 in the "World Book Capital" designation. The post UNESCO Names the UAE’s Sharjah World Book Capital 2019 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graphic novels have a significant presence this year at ALA 2017 and are in demand by librarians looking to offer their patrons a wide variety of stories encompassing race, gender and sexual identity and nonwestern cultures. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Titan Books has signed a debut psychological thriller which explores the bonds of sisterhood by Waterstones bookseller Fran Dorricott. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The book trade has been welcoming a fresh batch of interns today (23rd June) as part of #TakeYourDogToWorkDay. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lack of copyright has filled a nation of very keen readers with multiple versions of foreign books – doing artistic as well as financial damage to writersIf JD Salinger could see what was on the shelves in Iranian bookshops, he would turn in his grave. The Inverted Forest, a 1947 novella that he... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Six years after his huge hit The Fault in Our Stars, author John Green will bring out a new novel, Turtles All the Way Down, in October. Penguin Random House Children’s UK and PRH imprint Dutton Books in the US will publish the book simultaneously on October 10th, in a global English language... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer, editor and translator Daniel Hahn is donating half his winnings from the International Dublin Literary Award to help establish a new prize for debut literary translation - the TA First Translation Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Francis Spufford has been awarded the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize for his "miraculously constructed" debut Golden Hill (Faber). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three stories showcasing “the finest new Scottish children’s writing” have been revealed on the Kelpies Prize shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daniel Shand has been named the winner of this year's £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for his darkly comic novel Fallow (Sandstone Press) at the Society of Authors’ annual awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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