Kapil wins T S Eliot Prize

Bhanu Kapil has won the 2020 T S Eliot Prize for her “radical and arresting” collection How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry), her first to be published in the UK. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Oswald withdraws from T S Eliot prize over hedge fund sponsor

Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Oswald withdraws from T S Eliot prize over investment sponsor

Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Jamie Crook wins Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary

Unpublished author Jamie Crook has won this year's Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary for his... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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FCBG wins Eleanor Farjeon Award

The Federation of Children's Book Groups (FCBG) has won the 2011 Eleanor Farjeon Award. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Fourth Estate wins auction for traveller tale

Fourth Estate has acquired the story of a young Irish traveller after a four-way auction. Claire... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Drabble wins Golden PEN

Margaret Drabble is the winner of the 2011 Golden PEN Award. The award is given each year by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Changes to Daggers announced as Martin wins Ellis Peters

Andrew Martin’s First World War novel The Somme Stations (Faber) has won this year’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ronald Reng wins William Hill prize

Ronald Reng’s biography of Robert Enke, the German national goalkeeper who took his own... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Faber acquires German prize-winning debut

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:05 Faber has acquired a title by debut author Eugen Ruge, winner of this year's German Book Prize. Editor Sarah Savitt bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the title, In Times of Fading Light, from Katie Dublinski at... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LaPlante wins Wellcome prize

Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:40 Debut novelist Alice LaPLante has won the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize for her tale of a "brilliant mind in terminal decline". Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) beat Philip Roth's Nemesis as well as titles by Sarah Manguso, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ann... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Caldwell wins Dylan Thomas Prize

Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:50 Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell has won the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, beating Orange Prize-winner Téa Obreht. Caldwell's novel The Meeting Point (Faber) won over Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, as well as titles from Annabel Pitcher,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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MCB and Scholastic win Roald Dahl prizes

Publication Date: Tue, 08/11/2011 - 13:40 A book about feline pirates has claimed the bounty of an award at this year’s Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently and illustrated by Jim Field (Macmillan Children’s Books) was awarded the prize for children aged six and under at today’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Murakami and Ghosh to compete for Man Asian Prize

Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 11:46 Titles by Haruki Murakami and Amitav Ghosh have been longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize among 12 novels from countries spanning Japan, Iran, China and Bangladesh. Murakami’s 1Q84 makes the list alongside Ghosh’s River... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Literature Prize could coincide with LBF

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 14:49 The Literature Prize is to be awarded in the spring of each year, with founder Andrew Kidd saying it will take place for the first time in 2012 if the necessary funding is secured by the end of this year. Kidd said the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Waterstone's to publish short story prize anthology

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 08:30 Waterstone's is set to publish a print and ebook anthology to celebrate the shortlist for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. The high street bookseller will publish the titles on 4th March next year, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Michael Hunter wins Samuel Pepys prize

Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 08:45 Academic Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his "fascinating" biography of 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle. Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale) was awarded the £2,000 prize and a specially commissioned medal at a special dinner... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Shortlist revealed for South Asian Lit prize

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 25/10/2011 - 08:30 The six shortlisted books competing to win 2012’s $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature have been unveiled. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller

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New sponsor backs T S Eliot prize

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 20/10/2011 - 11:19 The Poetry Book Society has obtained three-year sponsorship for the prestigious T S Eliot Prize from private investment management firm Aurum Funds. There had been concern for the prize, which goes to new collections of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Commonwealth Writers Prizes relaunch

Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 16:37 The Commonwealth Writers prizes have relaunched today (19th October) with a new community website aimed at “connecting and inspiring new authors”. The new site is a free-to-join forum for aspiring writers to get advice from... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winman wins Edinburgh Festival book prize

Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 14:45 Sarah Winman’s debut When God Was a Rabbit (Headline Review) has won the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Newton First Book Award. The award encourages attendees of the festival to vote for their favourite of the 47... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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