The Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature has confirmed that it plans to postpone this year's award following the sexual assault scandal which has rocked the organisation and led to nearly half the 18-strong Academy resigning their posts. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#swedish academy
#nobel prize
A record nine debut writers have made the longlist for the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, including Raven Leilani, Naoise Dolan and Gabriel Krauze. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 15:36:22 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#debut writers
#naoise dolan
Author Nell Stevens will chair this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize judging panel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 04:32:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
More than half of the titles in the running for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 are published by independent presses, while the 20-strong longlist also features Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning debut Shuggie Bain (Picador). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 02:47:22 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#independent presses
Online classroom platform Oak National Academy is launching a new virtual library in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 12:35:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#virtual library
Earlier this year, we learned of the founding of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first English-language literary award to celebrate excellence in fiction by women writers in the United States and Canada. And today, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction announced that it has... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 17:54:45 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fiction announced
#women writers
#melinda gates
#donated $250
#celebrate excellence
#literary award
My assignment was to offer a survey course on the history of English literature in northeast China. I was paired with a young American teacher sponsored by the United Nations who was to teach phonetics and oral expression. We taught six days a week, and every Wednesday afternoon our students... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 09:49:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#cultural revolution
#united nations
#wednesday afternoon
#english literature
Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 11:33:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ya novel
In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by author Jenny Offill and literary and film critic James Plath. First Offill shares her reaction to the insurrection and attempted coup at the Capitol last week, and discusses her latest... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-14 09:49:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#jenny offill
#conspiracy theories
Three biographies published by Penguin Random House, including ones of poet Sylvia Plath and Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, are competing on the five-strong shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 05:51:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#biography prize
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, digital literary culture originating from the African continent has exploded. I still remember the early years, when Kindles first came into our lives and everyone was weighing in on whether ebooks were going to mean the death of literature. Back then, everything was fresh... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-04 18:00:58 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#african literature
#digital culture
#21st century
#african continent
#early years
#ebooks
Kim Cattrall has rounded off the second series of the "Women's Prize Podcast", picking books by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood among her top titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 18:58:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#toni morrison
#margaret atwood
#top titles
Lit Lists Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-12-14 20:55:17 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fig tree
#dubravka ugrešić
#memoir
A onetime British spy, he used the Cold War as his canvas in such novels as “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-13 10:56:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#cold war
The judging panel for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021, to be chaired by scholar Hermione Lee, has been unveiled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 03:14:31 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#judging panel
Illustrator Axel Scheffler is among the first in a selection of judges to be announced for Oscar's Book Prize 2021, seeking to find the best illustrated UK pre-school book of the year, with more to be revealed in the new year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 10:44:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book prize
BBC Studios has optioned TV rights for The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury, winner of the Harvill Secker Crime Writing Competition in association with Bloody Scotland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 14:28:57 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bbc studios
#bloody scotland
Camilla Townsend has won the 2020 Cundill History Prize for her work on Aztec history, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 14:11:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Doreen Cunningham has won £10,000 for her memoir Soundings: A Journey with Whales at this year's Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 05:13:41 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#royal society
#memoir
Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has won the U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out runner-up Kathryn L. Smithies’s Introducing the Medieval Ass for the honor. No, it’s not autofiction: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path is an... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 17:25:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#dog pissing
#oddest title
#medieval ass
#literary hub
#book title