Roskifte wins £40k Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize

Norwegian artist Kristin Roskifte has won the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize worth 350,000 Danish Kr (£40,000). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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People on the Move | 7.25.13

Clinton Smith has been named editor-in-chief of VERANDA. Smith has been editorial director of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles since April 2008. Patrick Frater has been named Asia bureau chief at Variety, based in Hong Kong. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced

The 2013 longlist of fiction for the Man Booker Prize will surprise and intrigue in equal measure. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner on October 15. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker Prize long list includes writers Colum McCann, Tash Aw

While some books on this year's Man Booker prize long list have gotten buzz here in the US, none of them compare (so far) with the success of last year's winner, Hilary Mantel's 'Bring Up the Bodies.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Young Hollywood Is Already Laying Big Plans for 2014 FIFA World Cup

Brazil has been a complicated marketplace for brands in recent weeks, but it's not stopping companies from getting ready for the FIFA 2014 World Cup. For instance, Young Hollywood and Momentum Entertainment Group today are announcing their partnership to create a digital channel that will focus... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boy and a Bear wins debut book award

Author Dave Shelton and editor David Fickling win this year's Branford Boase Award, with Shelton's illustrated tale A Boy and a Bear in a Boat. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shelton and Fickling win Branford Boase

Author Dave Shelton and his editor David Fickling have won the 2013 Branford Boase Award for A... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Sandberg campaign wins PPC/Waterstone's Award

Ebury Publishing senior publicity manager Shona Abhyankar has won the Second Quarterly Publishers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ball appointed at Little, Brown children's

Karen Ball, head of editorial at Working Partners, is to join Little, Brown as publisher for YA... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Wins a Round in Book-Scanning Suit

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the approval of a class of authors in a long-running lawsuit against Google Inc. over its efforts to electronically scan millions of books from public and university libraries in order to make them available online. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Verse novel wins debut book award

Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers, a novel written entirely in verse, wins the annual Desmond Elliott Prize for best debut novel. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Young book-buyers 'put off Amazon'

Young people have been put off buying from Amazon after recent revelation's about the company... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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People On The Move | 6.27.13

Scott Mozarsky has joined UBM Tech as president, media and partner solutions. Mozarsky was formerly executive vice president and global chief commercial officer for PR Newswire.Meredith Corporation has named Lisa Clune as SVP and general manager of MXM's Health Practice, BIG Communications.... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barber wins Desmond Elliott

Ros Barber's novel in verse The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre) has been named as the winner of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Young US readers 'like print', finds Pew

Younger readers in the US are more likely to have read a printed book in the last year than older... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shortlist revealed for PEN/Ackerley Prize

English PEN has announced the shortlist for the 2013 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir, given each... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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AUDIO: Should adults read children's books?

Jennie Bristow, associate fellow at the University of Kent, says grown-ups read children's books because they feel 'disenchanted with adult culture'. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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People On The Move | 6.20.13

Sean McManus has been named as the managing director at QuartzLive. McManus was previously director of programmes at The Economist. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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Paris Literary Prize Celebrates Unique Art of the Novella

Shakespeare & Co.'s Paris Literary Prize honors novellas written in English by an unpublished author. Judge Rebecca Carter reports on this year's festivities. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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