Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey wins prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth

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'

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School librarians in running for top award

Three school librarians have been shortlisted for the School Library Association's school... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sony Creates Literary Development Job

Sony Pictures Entertainment has tapped Ryan Doherty for the newly created role of v-p, literary development. Doherty, who will be based in New York City, will be tasked with, per SPE, "pursuing book-to-film-and-television opportunities." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Italy’s Claudio Magris Wins 2014 $150,000 FIL Prize

Italian writer Claudio Magris (b. 1939) has been awarded the 2014 Prize in Romance Languages by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL). Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Piatkus signs Amanda Palmer

Piatkus has acquired a book by musician Amanda Palmer based on her TED talk The Art of Asking.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Appelbaum to Get BISG Lifetime Award

Judith Appelbaum will be presented with the 2014 Lifetime Service Award at the BISG annual meeting on September 19, 2014 in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary Agent Q&A: Clare Wallace, UK

Clare Wallace of the Darley Anderson Literary Agency in London talks about digitization has changed the book rights business and what opportunities lie ahead. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors on the Air September 2, 2014: Diane Lewis

Diane Lewis, M.D., author of 'The Great Healthy Yard Project: Our Yards, Our Children, Our Responsibility' (She Writes Press, 9781938314865), will appear on WNYC's 'The Leonard Lopate Show' on Tuesday, September 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gallimard's Amis rejection 'for literary reasons'

Gallimard rejected Martin Amis’ latest novel The Zone of Interest not because of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors on the Air August 29, 2014: Emily Spivack and Simon Doonan

Emily Spivack, author of 'Worn Stories' (Princeton Architectural Press, 9781616892760), along with Simon Doonan, who contributed an essay to the book, will be on 'Weekend Edition Saturday' on Saturday, August 30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary Agent Q&A: Frauke Jung-Lindemann, Germany

Dr. Frauke Jung Lindemann, founder of The Berlin Agency, talks about the changing rights business and how she's found more opportunities in the film market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kelpies leads Scottish Children’s Book Awards shortlists

The Scottish Children’s Book Awards shortlists have been announced with Floris Books... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How a Book Fair Forever Changed US/Soviet Literary Relations

Martin Levin recounts how the inaugural Moscow Book Fair opened its doors to American and Western publishers, fostering better US/Soviet relations through the years. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Hass Wins $100K Poetry Prize

The Academy of American Poets has awarded Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate Robert Hass the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New book by classic children's author Richard Scarry will be released

Scarry's son Richard Scarry Jr. recently found a manuscript by his father and completed the illustrations. The book will be released on Aug. 26. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ice Bucket Challenge comes to the literary world

The Ice Bucket Challenge, created to raise awareness of ALS, was taken by such book world figures as author Stephen King, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and author and indie bookstore supporter Stephen Colbert. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hard books for hard times: literary experimentation gains popularity

For some authors, a demanding era for publishing calls for complicated stories not cautious and conservative ones and they're finding readersBetween the decline of the traditional bookshop and the internet wrecking our concentration, many thought the novel was on its last legs. With all the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon-Bonnier battle goes public with protest by European authors

More than 1,000 writers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have signed a letter to Amazon saying that the company has made Bonnier-published books less available and manipulated Amazon's recommended reading lists. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iowa Bookseller Pumps Up Sales for Author's Memoir

About 25% of the sales of a Holt memoir by a debut author have been in Iowa's bookstores, due to the heroic efforts of a Decorah bookseller Kate Rattenborg. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German-language Authors Join in Battle Against Amazon

Austrian, Swiss and German authors have sent an open letter of protest to Amazon, protesting the use of 'authors and their books as a bargaining chip to exact deeper discounts.' Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gritty memoir from the author of 'Little House on the Prairie' to hit shelves this fall

Some of the material from Laura Ingalls Wilder's autobiography, 'Pioneer Girl,' was used as a basis for the famed children's book series, but many of the more intense scenes were considered inappropriate for children. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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