Novels from female perspective miss out on major awards

Books written by women or men from the perspective of a female character are less likely to win major literary awards than books written from a male perspective or about men, research by author Nicola Griffith has found. Griffith analysed the last 15 years of winners for six fiction awards – the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Hugo Award, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics’ Award, and the Newbery Medal. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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London Book Fair Awards Add Rights Professional of the Year

The London Book Fair's International Excellence Awards has added a Rights Professional of the Year category. Winners will be announced in March 2017. The post London Book Fair Awards Add Rights Professional of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Max Porter scoops Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Award

Max Porter has won the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2016 for his "extraordinary" debut Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow's Wilson wins Women in Publishing award

Kate Wilson, founder and m.d. of Nosy Crow, is the winner of this year’s Women in Publishing Pandora Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arts Foundation Award 'creative non-fiction' shortlist revealed

Writers Marina Benjamin and Joanna Walsh, author/illustrator Oliver Kugler and poet Jack Underwood are on the shortlist for a new prize for creative non-fiction writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Gifts and misses: publishers pick their books of 2016

Which books did best? Which should have done better? Which books by their rivals would publishers like to have brought out? • Vote: What was your favourite book of the year?Publishing director, Jonathan Cape Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Award-winning romantic novelist Claire Lorrimer dies

Romance novelist Patricia Robins – who wrote under the penname Claire Lorrimer – has died aged 95. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Martin Amis to pen novel about Larkin, Bellow and Hitchens

Martin Amis is writing an autobiographical novel about three fellow writers - poet and writer Philip Larkin, Nobel Prize winning novelist Saul Bellow and essayist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens - all of whom have died since he started writing the book. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McNab wins inaugural Ruth Rendell Award for promoting literacy

Andy McNab has won the inaugural Ruth Rendell Award for the author who has done the most to champion literacy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnson, Bragg and Hodge win inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards

Politicians Alan Johnson, Margaret Hodge, Melvyn Bragg and John Bew have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards, as voted for by MPs and members of the House of Lords. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nielsen and Specsavers announce revamped Bestseller Awards

Nielsen Book and Specsavers are launching the Specsavers Bestseller Awards to celebrate book sales in all formats. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International Notes: Cambridge University Press and Overleaf; FutureBook Awards

In three of Cambridge University Press' journals, Overleaf arrangement offers authoring tools. And eight awards are part of the FutureBook Conference. The post International Notes: Cambridge University Press and Overleaf; FutureBook Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Green Apple Buyer Missing After 'Ghost Ship' Fire

Johnny Igaz, music buyer at Green Apple Books in San Francisco and a local DJ, has been missing since a fire broke out at an electronic music show at an Oakland warehouse on December 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tripathi, Ghosh Top India’s Raymond Crossword Book Awards

India's Raymond Crossword Book Awards recognize 'exclusively Indian' writers across 10 categories—winners are chosen by a jury and by popular vote. The post Tripathi, Ghosh Top India’s Raymond Crossword Book Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Sara Lloyd, PRH and Bloomsbury claim FutureBook Award gongs

Sara Lloyd, digital and communications director at Pan Macmillan, has won FutureBook’s Digital Leader of the award, announced at this year’s FutureBook Conference Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Short stories smuggled out of North Korea given PEN Translation award

A story collection smuggled out of North Korea - and translated by Man Booker International Prize-winner Deborah Smith - has been selected to receive a PEN Translation award from English PEN. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber Children’s shortlisted for two Blue Peter Awards

Two Faber Children’s titles are in the running for the 2017 Blue Peter Book Awards, along with books from HarperCollins Children’s, David Fickling Books, Wide Eyed Editions and Walker. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jerwood Awards go to Moller, Hirsch and Le Bas

Violet Moller, Afua Hirsch and Damian Le Bas have won 2016's RSL Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Erri De Luca wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Erri De Luca has won the 24th annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Day Before Happiness (Allen Lane). Continue reading at The Bookseller

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2016 Costa Short Story Award: public vote opens

The public vote for the 2016 Costa Short Story Award is now open and three shortlisted stories, selected from over 1,000 entires, are now available to read and listen to from the Costa Book Awards website.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Laura Barnett to collaborate with Mercury-nominated songstress on second novel

Laura Barnett, author behind debut novel The Versions of Us (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), is collaborating on her forthcoming second novel, Greatest Hits, with Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams, to move her protagonist's music "beyond the page". Continue reading at The Bookseller

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