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PEN America Literary Awards Return to Form
The free speech organization’s flagship book prizes were presented on March 31 at Manhattan’s Town Hall, marking a robust return for the awards program, which had been diminished by a now-lifted boycott for the past two years.
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2026 International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
Daniel Kehlmann, Marie NDiaye, and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ are among the authors on the six-book shortlist, which recognizes the best works of fiction translated into English. The winner will be announced May 19 at London’s Tate Modern.
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Han Kang, Arundhati Roy Among 2026 NBCC Award Winners
At a March 26 ceremony in Manhattan, the National Book Critics Circle presented its annual awards in eight competitive categories. Other winners include Nicholas Boggs, for Baldwin, and Karen Hao, for Empire of AI.
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Italian Authors to Compete for U.S. ‘SuperBook’ Award
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York has launched a new prize-of-prizes that sees eight Italian literary prize winners compete for $10,000 to support the translation and promotion of their novel.
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International Booker Prize Reveals 2026 Longlist
The 13 titles nominated for the prize for translated literature published in English in the U.K. and/or Ireland hail from 11 original languages, by authors and translators representing 14 nationalities across four continents.
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ALA’s Inaugural Comics Awards Celebrate Fiction, Nonfiction, and Series
The American Library Association’s Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table named its first-ever slate of Outstanding Comics Awards, with winners in the adult, YA, and children’s categories including Sophie Escabasse and Anders Nilsen.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2026 Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Winners
The annual Youth Media Awards were announced on January 26 by the American Library Association. See our interviews with the winners of the three top prizes about their initial reactions to the life-changing news.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Printz Win: ‘Genuinely Gobsmacked’
Smith describes her delight and surprise at winning the Printz Medal for 'Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories,' a compendium written by 17 Indigenous authors, which she edited.
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Cátia Chien’s Caldecott Win: ‘Wait, Is This What I Think It Means?’
For newly anointed Caldecott Medalist Cátia Chien, the past few days have been worthy of party sparklers and confetti cannons: her illustrations for the picture book Fireworks, written by Matthew Burgess and published by Clarion Books, earned the coveted prize at the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards on January 26.
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Renée Watson’s Newbery Win: ‘Tears of Joy’
When Renée Watson arrived home to New York City this past weekend, she had plenty of things on her mind—and hearing from the Newbery Committee wasn’t one of them.
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