PEN America presents literary awards to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Nafissa Thompson-Spires

The nonprofit organization PEN America announced the winners of its annual literary awards Tuesday night, with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah taking home the prestigious PEN/Jean Stein Award for book of the year for his debut short story collection, "Friday Black." Adjei-Brenyah’s competition for the... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

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Kinsella joins Oswald in withdrawing from T S Eliot Award

A second poet shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry has withdrawn from the award,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Faber, Unbound and Rebecca Smart win at FutureBook Innovation Awards

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Miller and Matar join English PEN Board

The Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Hisham Matar has been elected onto the board of writers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Mukherjee scoops £10,000 Guardian First Book Award

The only non-fiction title shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award has taken home the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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FCBG wins Eleanor Farjeon Award

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Drabble wins Golden PEN

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Four titles on Educational Writers’ Award shortlist

Four titles that bring "the natural world to life for 5-11 year-olds" are represented... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Leveson: PEN warning on privacy as Rowling gives evidence

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Abacus and Frances Lincoln win at Muslim Writers Awards

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RNA restructures awards and adds new logo

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International Bestsellers, November 2011: Literary Novels Hit in Germany, Italy

The top three fiction titles in Germany were all debuts in October, led by In Times of Fading Light, which recently won the 2011 German Book Prize and is set for publication in the U.S. by Graywolf Press in fall 2013. Umberto Eco’s newest book, The Prague Cemetery, which debuted at #3, is newly... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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FutureBook Innovation Awards shortlist revealed

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Kelman shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award

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Ribblestrop scoops Guardian Children's Book Award

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Bookshops take to the clouds to keep up with the literary e-volution

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Hollinghurst, Moran, French win at Galaxy awards

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