The awarding of this year's $150,000 FIL literature prize to Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique, an accused plagiarist, has divided writers and critics across Latin America. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author George R.R. Martin, the creator of the "Game of Thrones" series, will introduce a new character in one of his upcoming books thanks to a $20,000 charity auction prize. Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2014-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles has partnered with the Green Carnation Prize for LGBT writers. The two-year... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author Eimear McBride wins the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction with A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, the debut novel she spent nine years trying to get published. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jaron Lanier will receive the 2014 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his writing and advocacy about 'the dangers involved when human beings are reduced to digital categories.' Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber & Faber is to reprint 25,000 copies of Eimear McBride’s Baileys Women’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Galley Beggar/Faber &... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Republican Party has a lot of problems, and if there’s one that doesn’t get enough attention, it’s the party’s broad appeal to provocateurs, faux martyrs, and grifters. Just look at the speakers list for the Republican Leadership Conference, which began on Thursday. There’s Donald Trump, the... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a gala awards ceremony at New York University's Kimmel Center on Wednesday, the Independent Book Publishers Association named the Gold winners for the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Awards, which recognize “excellence in book editorial and design.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review magazine Kirkus Reviews has announced three $50,000 book prizes to be awarded for fiction, nonfiction and young adult literature. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two booksellers will be on hand to accept this year’s WNBA Pannell Award, given annually since 1983 by the Woman’s National Book Association to two bookstores—one general and one children’s specialty store—that enhance their communities by... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The grants are part of a million-dollar giveaway by James Patterson to independent booksellers who promote children’s books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Bloomsbury Children’s Books are launching a prize to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim has won the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his second... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former home secretary Alan Johnson has won the Orwell Prize for Books with childhood memoir, This... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edward St Aubyn has won the fifteenth Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for his satire on the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Addressing author concerns about the timeliness of royalty payments, the erotic romance publisher Ellora’s Cave blamed the problems on new accounting software. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton editor Anne Perry has been awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2014. Perry... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow’s Open Very Carefully, winner of the Waterstones best picture book prize this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book exploring England’s ancient track roads and green grass roads has won the inaugural... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oyster, an iPhone and iPad app that gives users unlimited access to its catalog of ebooks for $9.95 per month, announced that it now has more than 500,000 titles available on its service. The New York start-up launched to much acclaim last September, hailed as the Netflix of ebooks. But... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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