Amanda Lohrey's novel about a woman who isolates herself yet finds connection has won the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Continue reading at 'The Conversation'
[ The Conversation | 2021-07-15 06:31:16 UTC ]
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Nominated by world libraries, seven of this year's list are Irish, and almost 30 percent of the Dublin Literary Award list is in translation. The post The International Dublin Literary Award Longlist: 147 Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent (Serpent's Tail) has won the Spoon's Carpet Novel Award 2016 for the best novel to be read in a pub. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Wilson, founder and m.d. of Nosy Crow, is the winner of this year’s Women in Publishing Pandora Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romance novelist Patricia Robins – who wrote under the penname Claire Lorrimer – has died aged 95. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andy McNab has won the inaugural Ruth Rendell Award for the author who has done the most to champion literacy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Politicians Alan Johnson, Margaret Hodge, Melvyn Bragg and John Bew have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards, as voted for by MPs and members of the House of Lords. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erri De Luca has won the 24th annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Day Before Happiness (Allen Lane). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edinburgh-based Floris Books has won the Saltire Society Scottish Publisher of the Year Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Surfing memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by New Yorker journalist William Finnegan (Corsair) has scooped the 28th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Daniel Weyman and producer David Roper were the winners in the audiobook categories at the Audio Production Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Titles from Kate Atkinson, Paula Hawkins and Kazuo Ishiguro are among the 23 British novels longlisted for the €100,000 (£85,407.66) International Dublin Literary award 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Hannah Kohler and the writer and film producer Bob Stanley, also a member of the Mercury-nominated pop group Saint Etienne, have been named the joint winners of the 2017 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Shanghai International Children's Book Fair hosts the Golden Pinwheel for young illustrators and the Chen Bochui Awards for children's book authors. The post Two Awards Programs in China: Illustrators and Children’s Authors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nobrow children's imprint Flying Eye was named a winner in the 2016 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature awards, presented in Shanghai, China, earlier today (Thursday 17th November). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has acquired Ponti by Sharlene Teo, winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for an unpublished writer, after a seven-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction this year for his novel “The Underground Railroad.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a year plagued by racial tensions, Colson Whitehead took the National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Underground Railroad," a visceral and creative imagining of a female slave's escape from slavery. Although it takes years to write a book and bring it to publication, the National... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the 67th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the junction where politics and publishing meet was in the spotlight from the start. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Morpurgo will today (10th November) be presented with this year’s J M Barrie Award for his contribution to children’s literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A children’s book about the National Theatre has been announced as the overall winner of the School Library Association (SLA)’s Information Book Award 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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