Inaugural Folio Prize lecture cancelled

The inaugural Folio Prize lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had to be cancelled after the author fell ill. The lecture was due to take place at The British Library on Friday (20th March) as part of the Folio Prize Fiction Festival weekend of events. But Ngozi was unable to travel to London after falling ill. Folio Prize founder Andrew Kidd said it was with “great regret” that the lecture was cancelled at short notice. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Takeaways from GWU’s Inaugural Student Journal Symposium, by Rachel Smith & Madeline Meyers

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Social media bosses are ‘the largest dictators’, says Nobel peace prize winner

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V. V. Ganeshananthan Wins the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize

The 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction goes to V. V. Ganeshananthan for her Penguin Random House release, Brotherless Night. The post V. V. Ganeshananthan Wins the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize

Translated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major literary award. Continue reading at The New York Times

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'Kairos' Wins 2024 International Booker Prize

The honors for Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann and published by New Directions, come with a £50,000 cash prize, which is split equally between the author and translator. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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World Literature Today Announces 2024 Student Translation Prize Winners, by the Editors of WLT

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Nobel Prize-Winning Author Alice Munro has Died at 92

She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, with the Academy saying she could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages." Continue reading at Book Riot

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Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house

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The 2024 Pulitzer Prize–Winning Books, Reviewed

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Here are this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.

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'Night Watch,' 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' 'King' Among 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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PEN America Cancels 2024 World Voices Festival Amid Further Fallout

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The LA Times Book Prize Winners for 2024

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