The National Book Awards suggest that books are where grown-ups go when they want to use all of their minds and hearts, says Salon's Laura Miller. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Liam McIlvanney's book The Quaker picked up the 2018 McIlvanney Prize, named after his father William. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The growing importance of book podcasts is to be recognised at the FutureBook Awards for the first time, with a specific category for podcasters. The awards, which take place at FutureBook Live, The Bookseller’s annual publishing conference, recognise innovation and excellence across the book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Academic Simon Smith is the winner of this year’s Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In its first season, the National Book Foundation is partnering with five book festivals, two colleges, and three libraries to send authors to readers across the country. The post National Book Foundation’s ‘NBF Presents’ Inaugural Season Goes to 10 States appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NBF Presents, a new program from the National Book Foundation, is sponsoring National Book Award-winning or shortlisted authors to visit a dozen book fairs, universities and libraries around the country this fall. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s and Penguin Random House Children’s picked up two prizes each at this year’s Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors including Jessica Townsend, Matthew Syed and Ed Vere are in the running for this year’s Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, held in partnership with BookTrust. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Given a chance to speak to an audience of consumers, translation specialists brought together by the National Book Foundation, spoke about cultural distinctions, the challenges to finding readership, and bookselling tactics for the uninitiated. The post At the National Book Foundation’s... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Postal service company An Post has signed a three year headline sponsorship deal with the Irish Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Minhinnick has won the £4,000 Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for his “powerful and political” poetry collection published by independent press Carcanet—25 years after first scooping the prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honour, from America's Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of Little House on the Prairie about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Her Little House on the Prairie series has been criticised for racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Volume, Nelson's newest independent book store, has won the People's Choice Award for Best New Zealand Provincial Retailer. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amor Towles, Geraldine McCaughrean, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton have been named the winners of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Martine Wright has won the Autobiography of the Year Award at the 2018 Sports Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shelagh Toonen from Elgin Academy in Moran has been named Scotland’s Library and Information Professional of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books on racial reconciliation, motherhood, and forgiveness were honored for “affirming the highest values of the human spirit” during the 2018 Christopher Awards ceremony in New York City on Tuesday, May 16. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Our pictures round-up of the 2018 British Book Awards features authors Judith Kerr and Philip Pullman, Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page, literary agent Madeleine Milburn and more. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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