Hedge fund’s departure as £1.6m backer of the UK’s leading fiction award has prompted feverish speculation about the prize’s futurePrevious Man Booker prize winners are among those keenly awaiting the announcement of the new sponsor of the prestigious literary award, after the prize’s sponsor of almost two decades, Man Group, became the latest in a wave of companies pulling out of backing book prizes.The hedge fund, which has sponsored the £50,000 literary award since 2002, announced on Sunday that it would end its association with the prize after 2019, which cost them £1.6m a year. On Sunday, the Booker Prize Foundation said that its trustees are already in discussions with a new sponsor “and are confident that new funding will be in place for 2020”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Susskind will receive the €15,000 (£13,000) Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize later this month for his debut Future Politics (Oxford University Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Galbraith and Nikesh Shukla were amongst the winners of the CrimeFest awards in Bristol. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Shihab Nye has become the first Arab American author to be named the Young People's Poet Laureate. Nye, a Palestinian American writer and longtime fixture of the San Antonio literary scene, is the seventh poet to be named to the post by the Poetry Foundation. Foundation Director Katherine... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ed Vere has won this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize with his picture book How to be a Lion (Puffin). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Shihab Nye has become the first Arab American author to be named the Young People's Poet Laureate. Nye, a Palestinian American writer and longtime fixture of the San Antonio literary scene, is the seventh poet to be named to the post by the Poetry Foundation. Foundation Director... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-13 19:30:00 UTC ]
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Speaking of the conscious effort it takes to nurture literary creative talent, Joyce Carol Oates accepts the Jerusalem Prize on the opening of the 2019 Jerusalem International Book Forum. The post Israel’s International Book Forum Opens With Joyce Carol Oates’ Jerusalem Prize appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new six-part podcast series for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, produced by prize sponsor Fremantle, has launched. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The six-title shortlist has been revealed for this year’s Society of Theatre Research (STR) Theatre Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Adam, Michael Donkor and Anna Mackmin have all made the 2019 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist for debut novelists, with the winner in line for £10,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize has announced its five regional awards this year have all been won by women. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In “Gatsby’s Oxford,” Christopher A. Snyder explores another side of Fitzgerald’s hero. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-05-08 15:49:14 UTC ]
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Nina Stibbe has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with her “pitch-perfect romp” Reasons to be Cheerful (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booker and Jhalak Prize winners Anna Burns and Guy Gunaratne are among the 12 novelists longlisted for the first Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indies make up half of this year's Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize longlist, with Head of Zeus bagging two nominations for the £15,000 prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by sales of the graphic novel format, total sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in the U.S. and Canada were approximately $1.09 billion in 2018, according to a joint estimate by trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Eaves' novel uses the legacy of Alan Turing to explore the impact of torture. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Eaves’ Alan Turing-inspired novel Murmur (CB Editions) has scooped the 10th Wellcome Book Prize, worth £30,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The biggest international poetry prize for ecological, environmental and climate-concerned poetry, the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry, has returned for a second year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalist and film-maker Guy Gunaratne has won the £1,000 Jhalak Prize for his debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raynor Winn and A J Pearce are among the authors on the six-strong shortlist for the inaugural Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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