Merlin Sheldrake, Anita Sethi and David Attenborough are among authors to be longlisted for the Wainwright Prizes this year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 08:48:31 UTC ]
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Something to look forward to in 2020: the Pulitzer Prize Board has announced a new experimental category, Audio Reporting. “The renaissance of audio journalism in recent years has given rise to an extraordinary array of non-fiction storytelling,” says Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy. (Hello,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-06 21:11:10 UTC ]
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The National Books Critics Circle has just announced the seven finalists for the 2019 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book published in the last year. The winner will be announced on January 11th, 2020, but in the meantime, peruse the finalists at your leisure below, and feel free to get... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-06 19:00:27 UTC ]
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Podcasts like S-Town, Serial and Believed aren't just enthralling, they're also great examples of hard-hitting, in-depth reporting. With that in mind, the Pulitzer Prize Board is adding a new journalism prize category for audio reporting. Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-12-06 17:44:00 UTC ]
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The Pulitzer Prize Board today announces a new Journalism prize category for the 2020 prize cycle: Audio Reporting. “The renaissance Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-06 15:53:37 UTC ]
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Jane Bettany has won HQ and Gransnet's writing prize for unpublished women writers aged over 40. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 01:51:32 UTC ]
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Journalist and activist Anita Sethi is founding the I Belong Here foundation to help marginalised groups find a voice through writing—including proposing a ‘Ministry of Stories’-inspired "house of stories of the North" in her old childhood home in inner-city Manchester. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 18:15:38 UTC ]
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Two members of the external Nobel literature prize committee have quit – one over the choice of Peter Handke as this year's winner and the other over the slow pace of reforms since the sexual assault scandal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 10:30:14 UTC ]
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The shortlists for the Society of Authors’ 2019 Translation Prizes have been revealed, seeing 35 translated works from nine different languages put into the running for almost £20,000 in prizes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 08:11:57 UTC ]
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Guide by the late Charles L Dobbins, known as the father of modern trapping, sees off polemical defence of traditional dairiesThe Dirt Hole and Its Variations might be a serious guide to hunting and trapping foxes, coyotes, bobcats and raccoons, but the double entendre has helped it land the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-11-29 11:35:58 UTC ]
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The six-strong shortlist for this year’s Tony Lothian Prize, which awards £2,000 to the best unpublished biography, have been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 22:18:02 UTC ]
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Eighty-eight-year-old Irish author Edna O’Brien has won the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature for having “broken down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond and moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 18:17:47 UTC ]
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Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, has said prizes like the Booker are for readers first and foremost, and that they should be treated as an investigation rather than an act of judgement shaping the canon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 12:59:25 UTC ]
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Samantha Harvey’s The Western Wind (Vintage) has won the £1000 2019 Staunch Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 19:26:29 UTC ]
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The Charles Taylor Foundation, a charity organization that supports Canadian writers, gave a cheery explanation for why a literary prize it’s been co-sponsoring for two decades is coming to an end next year: they accomplished exactly what they’d set out to do. For almost 20 years, the Foundation... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-21 18:55:31 UTC ]
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The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize will be judged by Claire-Louise Bennett, Rachel Cusk, Niven Govinden and Ottessa Moshfegh in 2020, running in its third year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 15:02:31 UTC ]
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A tale of a squirrel's quest for friends, Cyril and Pat (Pan Macmilan) by Emily Gravett, has been crowned the inaugural winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize, which celebrates the best books for sharing with babies and children aged under five. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 04:31:22 UTC ]
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CrimeFest has launched two new prizes for debut crime novel and best TV crime drama for the 2020 awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 12:25:24 UTC ]
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Ian Williams, winner of this year’s $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction, began his acceptance speech Monday night with an emotional tribute. “Margaret Atwood over there is the first book I bought with my own money at a bookstore in Brampton,” he told the audience.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-19 20:30:03 UTC ]
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Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday) has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The book sees social historian Rubenhold reconstruct the murdered women's lives, sometimes from as little as a single hair, giving voice to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 05:22:32 UTC ]
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