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Global Connectedness in Trying Times: Spotlight on the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
The SZBA celebrates literary and cultural achievements in the Arab world. (Sponsored)
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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Revealed on Twitter
As the country shelters in place during the COVID-19 crisis, the Los Angeles Times unveiled the winners of its 40th Annual Book Prizes on Twitter on April 17, among them Marlon James, Ilya Kaminsky, and Ben Lerner.
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Submissions Open for 2020 PW Star Watch
Nominations are now open for the sixth annual PW Star Watch program, organized by Publishers Weekly and Frankfurter Buchmesse.
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International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
Six books, one each translated from Dutch, Farsi, German, and Japanese and two from Spanish, have made the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
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Porter Square Named 2020 PW Bookstore of the Year; Barnett Top Rep
Sixteen-year-old Porter Square Books is the first New England bookstore in more than a decade to receive this honor and the second bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Texan Bob Barnett, a sales representative for 25 years, was named Rep of the Year.
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Whitings Name 2020 Winners, Celebrate 35 Years
Ling Ma, Jia Tolentino, and others join the ranks of Whiting fellows as the awards celebrate their 35th anniversary.
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Eight Writers Awarded $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes
The winners of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. Each will receive $165,000 to support their work.
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2020 NBCC Award Winners Announced
The National Book Critics Circle, which was forced to cancel its awards ceremony due to the new coronavirus, has announced this year's winners of its annual slate of literary book awards.
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NBCC Award Ceremony Postponed
The National Book Critics Circle has canceled both its finalists reading, set for March 11, and its awards ceremony on March 12. The NBCC will still deliberate on March 12 to choose this year's winners.
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Writers Li, Lok, de Waal Win Big at PEN Lit Awards
On March 2 at the PEN Literary Awards ceremony, more than $330,000 in prize money and fellowships were awarded to a host of winning writers of all kinds.
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A Buoyant 2020 Audie Awards Celebrates 'The Only Plane in the Sky,' Stephen King
At the Audio Publishers Association's annual Audie Awards, which marked a quarter century this year, 'The Only Plane in the Sky' took home the top award and Stephen King received a lifetime achievement as host Mo Rocca and others saluted the progress of the audiobook form over the past 25 years.
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2020 Audie Awards Finalists Named
The Audio Publishers Association has announced the finalists in 24 categories for the 25th annual Audie Awards, which will be held at a gala in New York on March 2.
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Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated $4.5 million to the Academy of American Poets to fund civic poets laureate positions, more than doubling its donation from last year.
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Adam, Young Win B&N 2019 Discover New Writers Awards
Claire Adam's 'The Golden Child' and Damon Young's 'What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker' were the winners of B&N's Discover Great New Writers Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.
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Finalists Named for 2020 PW Bookstore of the Year
This year's shortlist of five bookstores includes a number of stores with multiple locations and with years of bookselling experience, from both coasts and as far south as Texas.
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Heller, Robotham, and Kim Among 2020 Edgar Nominees
Timed to the 211th birthday of namesake Edgar Allan Poe, the Mystery Writers of America has announced its nominees for the 2020 Edgar Awards.
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NBCC Awards Finalists Announced
The National Book Critics Circle has announced 30 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the annual National Book Critic Circle Awards, which will be presented March 12 in New York.
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The Selfies Book Awards Kick Off in the U.S.
Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch, the daily online news service for the U.K., have launched the Selfies book awards for self-published authors in the United States.
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2019 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature in Photos
Our photographer caught up with the five finalists for the Young People’s Literature prize, along with their editors, and also captured the award announcement at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan.
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Sandler, Krasznahorkai, Sze, Broom, Choi Win 2019 National Book Awards
At the 70th National Book Awards, LeVar Burton presided over a smoothly run evening where Jeff Sharlet was named the winner in the adult nonfiction category for 'The Yellow House' and Susan Choi took home the adult fiction award for 'Trust Exercise.'