Vanessa Onwuemezi has won this year’s £2,500 White Review Short Story Prize for her tale "At the Heart of Things". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian John Bew has won the £3,000 Orwell Prize for Books 2017 for his biography of former Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, published by riverrun/Quercus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Israeli writer David Grossman's A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen and published by Jonathan Cape, has won this year's Man Booker International Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#horse walks
#jonathan cape
British-born translator Jessica Cohen and Israeli author David Grossman share the £50,000 Man Booker International purse for 'A Horse Walks Into a Bar.' The post Author David Grossman and Translator Jessica Cohen Win the 2017 Man Booker International Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#horse walks
Naomi Alderman has won the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her feminist science fiction novel The Power (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#naomi alderman
Simon Sebag Montefiore has been awarded the €20,000 Literary Prize Lupicaia del Terriccio 2017 for his book The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
James Williams, a doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University and former Google employee, has won the inaugural $100,000 (£77,730) Nine Dots Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#oxford university
Yorkshire-based indie press Bluemoose Books is offering the opportunity for five new writers to be published in a short story collection alongside its leading authors Andrew Michael Hurley, Carys Bray, Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Kalu and Kirsty Logan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#carys bray
#paul kingsnorth
#kirsty logan
Lucy Cavendish College, part of the University of Cambridge, has named the 2017 winner of its fiction prize as Sarah Ward, with her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fiction prize
#sarah ward
Profile Books is set to publish nine rediscovered short stories by Ruth Rendell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#profile books
#ruth rendell
Hisham Matar has won the first £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his "profound and powerful" memoir The Return (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
David France's insider account of the AIDS epidemic, How to Survive A Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS (Picador), has been named the "unanimous" winner of the Green Carnation Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#insider account
#david france
#aids epidemic
Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries (Vintage) has won the 2017 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, making it third time lucky for the author. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#helen fielding
#sbridget jones
#comic fiction
#time lucky
The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field has been named the winner of Oscar’s Book Prize 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book prize
#jim field
These literary gems are proof that good things come in small packages. How many classic short stories have you read? How much do you know about their authors? Take our quiz and find out. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#short stories
#literary gems
#good things
This month we are featuring short story collections, with a particular interest in female authors and/or protagonists. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#female authors
Alice Curry, founder and publisher of Lantana Press, has been awarded the 2017 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for being a "great role model for future generations starting out in publishing". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#alice curry
Capturing one of the richest purses for young writers, Australian Fiona McFarlane wins the Dylan Thomas for work called 'stunning' and 'unforgettable.' The post Australian Fiona McFarlane’s ‘The High Places’ Wins Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#high places
#young writers
#dylan thomas
Francis Spufford has won the Royal Society of Literature’s £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for his debut novel Golden Hill (Faber). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#francis spufford
#royal society
JK Rowling says she's 'thrilled' to pick up an outstanding contribution award to add to her collection of literary accolades. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#jk rowling
Romeo Oriogun from Nigeria has won 2017's £3,000 Brunel International African Poetry Prize for his "complex and ultimately beautiful" writing on masculinity, sexuality and desire in the face of LGBT criminalisation and persecution. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |