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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Britain's oldest literary prize is to make a special award later this year for the best ever winner. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus dominates the shortlist for the inaugural Scottish Crime Book of the Year award,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House imprint William Heinemann has acquired rights in a unique edition of Ernest... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books and publishing have a strong representation in this year's PR Week awards,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century and Arrow has acquired two novels by Andrew Clover, the former Sunday Times columnist.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than the half the libraries in Tameside, Greater Manchester, could be lost as the borough... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Glaswegian writer Denise Mina has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Close to half of Wakefield district's 26 libraries face closure by March next year unless... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are "missing out" on ebook sales to schools because of the lack of a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades of Grey has surpassed Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Nathan Englander has been announced as the winner of the world's most valuable short... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frederick Forsyth has been awarded the Crime Writers Association's Diamond Dagger award at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired the first literary novel by Jonathan Grimwood. The author has previously... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage has won the best marketing campaign of the year award at the Book Marketing Society's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Social network Anobii is the new title sponsor of the Edinburgh International Book Festival's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thirteen novels, including "The Good Earth,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, will be published in ebook format by Open Road Integrated Media. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The intensely private Thomas Pynchon has resisted the electronic format for his books – until now. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jenny Colgan has won the “coolest award in women’s commercial fiction” for her... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vadim Birstein’s SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon (Biteback) has won the inaugural St... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Thomas Pynchon, author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “The Crying of Lot 49,” characteristically declined to speak about his decision. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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