Author of Black Rock White City, which has won Australia’s premier literary prize, says he feels a bit of sunlight after many years of absolute obscurity Two years ago, Melbourne’s AS Patric couldn’t even get a rejection slip for his book, Black Rock White City. Not one of the big Australian publishers responded when he sent it; he couldn’t raise a pulse.Now that same book, eventually nabbed by small independent publisher Transit Lounge, has won Australia’s premier literary prize, the $60,000 Miles Franklin award. It edged out the presumptive bookies’ favourite The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, and the three other Miles Franklin shortlisted books: Hope Farm by Peggy Frew, Leap by Myfanwy Jones, and Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar. Related: The Miles Franklin shortlist: five books you need to read next Related: Women and Melbourne writers dominate Miles Franklin 2016 shortlist Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
German author-illustrator Wolf Erlbruch has won the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer, performance poet and YouTube star Hollie McNish has won 2016's £5,000 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An “unusual” influential recipe book originally published in 1745 by a Spanish Franciscan friar and translated into English has won the 2017 Jane Grigson Trust Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Louise Erdrich won the fiction prize, Matthew Desmond won for nonfiction; and Margaret Atwood received the lifetime achievement award at the National Book Critics Circle Awards ceremony last night in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber & Faber has acquired Friend of My Youth, a new novel by award-winning writer and critic Amit Chaudhuri. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the World Book Day Award has been revealed as an East Yorkshire school after it faced three years of “struggling” to expand its books offering from "one meagre bookshelf" into a library. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books' A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston has won the fiction category in the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2016 Ovation Awards handed its top honors to Los Angeles LGBT Center’s “Hit the Wall” and “Ham: A Musical Memoir,” as well as to Celebration Theatre’s “The Boy From Oz” and “Bootycandy.” Sam Harris, the actor and singer upon whose book “Ham” was based, took the honors for lead actor in a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish novelist Sebastian Barry has won the Costa Novel Award for a second time with Days Without End (Faber & Faber). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 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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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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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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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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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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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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