Whitehead wins second Pulitzer with Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for the second time, with his novel The Nickel Boys (Fleet). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Sara Bershtel Wins Friedrich Ulfers Prize Ahead of Festival Neue Literatur

Metropolitan Books publisher Sara Bershtel will receive the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers Prize for her contributions to German literature in the USA. The prize is part of NYC's Festival Neue Literatur. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut novelist wins Goldsmiths prize

A debut novelist who spent nine years trying to get her first book published is rewarded for her persistence with a £10,000 literary prize for original fiction. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wimpy Kid wins charts top spot

Jeff Kinney has notched up the biggest weekly sale for a children's book in over a year,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Usborne wins children’s science book prize

Usborne has won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Award with an interactive flap book... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almond wins Eleanor Farjeon

Skellig author David Almond has won the Eleanor Farjeon Award 2013. The award, now in its 47th... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Vaye Watkins wins Dylan Thomas Prize

American author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize with Battleborn, a collection... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: The Pike wins non-fiction book award

Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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D'Annunzio biography wins Samuel Johnson Prize

Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Italian artist Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike (4th... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: Could bees book win top literary prize?

The winner of the UK's leading award for non-fiction books, the Samuel Johnson Prize, will be announced next week, here Nick Higham speaks to nominated author Dave Goulson Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Angela Jackson wins Edinburgh First Book Award

Angela Jackson has won the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, sponsored... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spain’s Clara Sánchez wins €601,000 Planeta Prize

Spanish author Clara Sánchez has won the 2013 Planeta Prize for her novel El cielo ha vuelto, a book about the nature of our economic and political environment. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Kiwi Twin Peaks” Wins 2013 Man Booker Prize

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, at the age of just 28, has become the younger ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Luminaries." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eleanor Catton's 'The Luminaries' wins 2013 Man Booker Prize

Eleanor Catton took the 2013 Man Booker Prize for "The Luminaries" at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night.This post has been updated. Please see note at bottom for details. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booker Prize winner: Murder mystery wins prestigious award

Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton wrote an 832-page murder mystery set in Catton's homeland, New Zealand. This is the last year that the Man Booker Prize will be open only to writers from the former British Empire. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker

Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize 2013 with The Luminaries. Catton's second novel... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Canada’s Munro Wins Nobel Prize

Canadian author Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Here, her publisher and literary agency react to the news at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: HC Wins Self-Published Novel In Major Buy

In what is rumored to be a deal worth $500,000, Jennifer Brehl at HarperCollins’s William Morrow imprint bought North American rights to Tina Seskis’s novel, One Step Too Far. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alice Munro wins 2013 Nobel Prize in literature

Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for being "master of the short story" by Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Who Will Win a Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro, who the Nobel committee called a "master of the contemporary short story." Last year, Slate book editor Dan Kois picked her for a prize and said her "work has evolved and grown in fascinating, boundary-shattering ways." The... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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