Kit de Waal's anthology Common People, providing a platform for new working class writers, is now fully crowd-funded for publication with Unbound. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kit de Waal's anthology Common People, providing a platform for new working class writers, is now fully crowd-funded for publication with Unbound. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A project to develop a guide to make literature events accessible for disabled people has reached its research and development phase target budget following support from the industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 01:08:21 UTC ]
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BBC One will adapt Kit de Waal's novel My Name is Leon (Simon & Schuster) into a film. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-24 20:59:15 UTC ]
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From cultural appropriation to literary snobbery, campaigning author Kit de Waal is well known for holding the publishing industry to account. Her passionate, inclusive and activist spirit has seen her named 2019 FutureBook Person of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 16:22:05 UTC ]
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Author and campaigner Kit de Waal has been named FutureBook Person of the Year, sponsored by Mosaic Search and Selection. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 07:31:44 UTC ]
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"When Philip Jones did a call-out for nominations for the 2019 Futurebook Person of the year, just one name leapt to mind." Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 05:41:57 UTC ]
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Authors Jenny Eclair, Kit de Waal, Sally Gardner and Bali Rai have been made ambassadors for national audiobook charity Listening Books as it marks its 60th anniversary. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 18:56:21 UTC ]
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Kit de Waal talks to us about her reimagining of Moby Dick, Becoming Dinah, which is the launch title for Orion Children’s Books’ new YA feminist series, Bellatrix. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 01:27:59 UTC ]
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The Good Journal, a quarterly literary journal launched by Nikesh Shukla and Julia Kingsford to showcase UK BAME writers, has exceeded its £40k crowd-funding target. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kit de Waal has won the €15,000 (£13,100) Kerry Group Irish Book of the Year for her "heartfelt and far-sighted" fiction work My Name is Leon (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First-time author Kit de Waal tells Caroline Carpenter why her strongly backed début novel, My Name is Leon, is true to life. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Birmingham poet laureate Stephen Morrison-Burke has been selected for the inaugural Kit de Waal scholarship which offers a budding writer from a low-income household or a marginalised background a place on Birkbeck's creative writing MA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Kit de Waal is to fund a Creative Writing scholarship at Birkbeck, University of London, for a budding writer from a low-income household or a marginalised background. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author and Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal—credited by many with changing our understanding of both animals and humans through a number popular, groundbreaking books—died on March 14. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Gungnir, a new sci-fi/fantasy publisher helmed by comics veterans Jim Krueger and Steve Orlando, will launch in April 2024. Named after the staff of the Norse god Odin, which always hit its target, Gungnir will publish a mix of graphic novels, prose novels, and art books in the sci-fi/fantasy... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-25 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Wingate Literary Prize shortlist this year includes Nicole Krauss and Edmund de Waal with a mix of indie and corporate publishers in the running for the £4,000 award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 00:47:48 UTC ]
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Edmund de Waal, Nicole Krauss and Martin Puchner are among 13 authors longlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize with their "powerful expressions of the diversity of Jewish experience". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 22:46:16 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has signed Letters to Camondo, an “extraordinary” book penned by Edmund de Waal during the first lockdown that tells the story of the Jewish Camondo family in Paris. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-07 20:38:23 UTC ]
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The future of the Brontë Parsonage Museum is at risk following an estimated loss of £500,000 during lockdown, the Brontë Society has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 03:33:28 UTC ]
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Being a 144-year-old information provider to the agricultural industry, Farm Journal Media typically likes to stage its development deliberately. But when the COVID-19 pandemic rendered all-important live events off-limits, CEO Andy Weber describes the ensuing weeks at the company as more like... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-06-25 13:36:08 UTC ]
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