Louise Erdrich Wins the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize

In its fourth year, the issue-driven Aspen Words Prize goes to fiction based in the Native American struggle for tribal self-determination. The post Louise Erdrich Wins the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-22 02:23:20 UTC ]
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Awards: Serbia’s Tišma Literary Prize: Honor Without Borders

The still-young €10,000 biennial Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize in Serbia is distinguished by its worldwide eligibility. The post Awards: Serbia’s Tišma Literary Prize: Honor Without Borders appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-03-02 16:58:52 UTC ]
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Awards: Cal Flyn Wins the £10,000 Young Writer of the Year Honor

Frequently given shortlist and longlist attention, Cal Flyn's socio-ecological study 'Islands of Abandonment' wins Young Writer of the Year. The post Awards: Cal Flyn Wins the £10,000 Young Writer of the Year Honor appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-03-01 17:30:05 UTC ]
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Scholar of the Early Republic Wins American History Book Prize

The New-York Historical Society award goes to Alan Taylor, whose “American Republics” emphasizes the fragility of the American experiment from the beginning. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2022-02-25 16:00:08 UTC ]
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Ewen and Salami win inaugural Jericho Prize for Black-British writers

Abimbola Salami and Diane Ewan have won the inaugural Jericho Prize, a competition for unpublished and self-published Black-British writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 15:04:19 UTC ]
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De Waal and Krauss shortlisted for 2022 Wingate Literary Prize

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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Charman and Sharratt win BookTrust's Storytime Prize

Katrina Charman's The Whales on the Bus, illustrated by Nick Sharratt (Bloomsbury Children’s) has won BookTrust's Storytime Prize for the best new book for babies and young children. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 06:28:28 UTC ]
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Desperate Literature Prize partners with The Literary Consultancy

The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has announced a new landmark partnership with The Literary Consultancy and revealed the judging line-up for 2022.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 04:07:20 UTC ]
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Taylor wins the £25k T S Eliot Prize for 'blazing book of rage and light'

Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize worth £25,000 for C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press), described as “a blazing book of rage and light".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-11 22:54:54 UTC ]
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Survey says: the Booker is the most important literary prize in the world.

An interesting dispatch from prize world: as The Bookseller reported, a new international survey conducted by Nielsen Book shows publishers, writers, booksellers and media consider the Booker Prize the “most important” literary prize. The Booker’s status isn’t completely out of left field, but... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-12-23 20:28:47 UTC ]
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Ohayon wins V S Pritchett Short Story Prize

Leeor Ohayon has won the £1,000 V S Pritchett Short Story Prize for his "tender, moving" tale "Gahnun on Shabbat". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 00:36:37 UTC ]
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Profile lands Kars' Cundhill History Prize-winning history of Guyanese revolt

Profile has acquired the Cundill History Prize-winning Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, a "gripping and immersive" work of history uncovering a little-known slave revolt, by Marjoleine Kars. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-13 00:06:45 UTC ]
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Toutoungi wins Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections

Claudine Toutoungi has won the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections, with her "offbeat and utterly original" Two Tongues (Carcanet).  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-10 17:23:47 UTC ]
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Harkness wins Tony Lothian Prize for proposal on Macmillan

Sarah Harkness has won the Tony Lothian Prize for her "sympathetic" biography proposal "Alexander Macmillan, Advocate for the Ignorant – The Life and Times of a Victorian Publisher". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 23:14:29 UTC ]
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Hay and Women's Prize win Culture Recovery Fund cash

The Hay Festival and the Women's Prize are some of the literature organisations to have benefitted from the latest round of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund administered through Arts Council England.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-22 05:55:21 UTC ]
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Watch Chanel Miller’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize speech, delivered in Brock Turner’s hometown.

On Sunday night, both the 2020 and 2021 winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize accepted their awards in an in-person ceremony—including Chanel Miller, who won the 2020 Prize for nonfiction for her memoir Know My Name. Dayton, Ohio is the hometown of Brock Turner, who was convicted of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-11-19 18:22:33 UTC ]
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Radden Keefe's 'revelatory' book on Sackler dynasty wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Patrick Radden Keefe has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his "revelatory" book on the rise and fall of the Sackler dynasty Empire of Pain (Picador), which judges hailed as a "future classic".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 21:31:45 UTC ]
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Imoh wins inaugural Lit in Colour Creative Student prize

Student Emmanuella Imoh has won the inaugural Lit in Colour Creative Student prize for her "bold and thought-provoking poem", told visually through a short video. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 11:03:29 UTC ]
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Waidner wins £10k Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold

Isabel Waidner has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for their "mind-bending" novel Sterling Karat Gold, published by indie Peninsula Press.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 00:44:35 UTC ]
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South African Damon Galgut Wins 2021 Booker Prize

South African novelist Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Promise,' published by Europa Editions. The novel follows the lives of three white siblings brought together by a series of funerals that follow the trajectory of the history of post-apartheid South Africa. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize with 'spectacular' novel The Promise

Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize with The Promise (Chatto & Windus), hailed by judges as “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-03 11:06:30 UTC ]
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