Syrian author Samar Yazbek has made the Orwell Prize longlist for The Crossing, which tells of the journalist’s attempts to get back into her country after being exiled by president Bashar al-Assad. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Nigerian author Rotimi Babatunde has won the 13th Caine Prize for African Writing. The writer was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British author Jon McGregor wins the 100,000 euro (£81,000) International Impac Dublin Literary Award for his third novel Even the Dogs. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut novel has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for the second year running, with US author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Terry Pratchett has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction after being... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Delhi-based novelist Rahul Bhattacharya has won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orange will not renew its title sponsorship of The Women's Prize for Fiction after this year... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A dozen books a year? Some writers are accelerating the pace in this brave new world of ebooks. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Octogenarian Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rukhsana Yasmin, commissioning editor at The Westbourne Press, has won this year's Kim Scott... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susie Harries' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) and Professor Alexandra... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize includes stories by authors from Nigeria, Kenya,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker-winning Nigerian author Ben Okri has been announced as the new vice-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker-longlisted novel A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvette Edwards, published by small... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big bestseller Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson (Doubleday) and a novel from small Welsh... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Coker of Smashwords became the leader of indie ebook writers--including some with dirty minds--in a fight against censorship and PayPal. He also has strong feelings about the DOJ's ebook pricing lawsuit.Mark Coker is the CEO of Smashwords, an ebook publishing and distribution platform.... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has set up a new prize in memory of author Gordon Burn, alongside New Writing North and the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editors and marketing and publicity managers from Little, Brown, Random House and indies,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has set up a new prize in memory of author Gordon Burn, alongside New Writing North and the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late Manning Marable has won the Pulitzer Prize for history, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades, but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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