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Bloomsbury’s Arcadian Library Online Takes Home Top Honor at 2018 PROSE Awards
Bloomsbury beat out more than 550 books, journals and digital products across 51 subject categories to take home this year's R.R. Hawkins Award.
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Four Questions for...Author and Grammy Winner Lynell George
PW spoke with the recent Grammy Award-winner about the art of writing liner notes, her forthcoming essay collection, and the underappreciated literary scene in L.A.
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National Book Award for Translation Added
The National Book Foundation has established a fifth National Book Award, one for translated works of fiction and nonfiction published in the U.S. The new award will be presented at the 69th National Book Awards this November.
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2017 NBCC Awards Finalists Announced
The National Book Critics Circle has announced 30 finalists in six categories for its 2017 literary awards, as well as the recipients of three additional prizes.
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Stephen King, Carolyn Reidy to Be Honored at PEN Gala
PEN America will award Stephen King with the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award and celebrate S&S president and CEO Carolyn Reidy as its Publisher Honoree at its annual Literary Gala on May 22 in New York.
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'Great Auk' Wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
'The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk,' a nonfiction picture book written and illustrated by Jan Thornhill, has won the 2017 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.
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Michael Redhill Wins 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Redhill was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and its attendant C$100,000 purse for his novel 'Bellevue Square' (Doubleday Canada) on November 20.
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Benway, Bidart, Gessen, and Ward Win 2017 National Book Awards
At the 68th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, politics were again front and center in the publishing world.
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Cynthia Nixon to Host 2017 National Book Awards
The Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award–winning actor, director, and activist will host the 68th National Book Awards on November 15 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
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George Saunders Wins 2017 Man Booker Prize
Saunders, the second American to win the £50,000 fiction award, was honored for 'Lincoln in the Bardo,' his first novel.
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Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
In its citation, the Swedish Academy commended Ishiguro as an author "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
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National Book Foundation Names 2017 NBA Finalists
The diverse shortlists include such established voices as Frank Bidart and Frances FitzGerald and up-and-coming literary favorites including Danez Smith, Carmen Maria Machado, and Ibi Zoboi.
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Latino Authors Celebrated At Annual Book Awards
The annual International Latino Book Awards celebrated Latino literature and culture in the U.S. in early September.
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Halle Butler, Weike Wang Among NBF's Five Under 35 Honorees
The National Book Foundation has announced the honorees of its annual program recognizing debut fiction writers under the age of 35.
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NBF Names Annie Proulx Winner of Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
The author of such works of fiction as 'The Shipping News' and 'Barkskins' is the 30th recipient of the medal, which has writers including Robert A. Caro, Judy Blume, and Toni Morrison.
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Robinson Named Winner of NBF's Literarian Award
The National Book Foundation has named Scholastic chairman, president, and CEO Dick Robinson the recipient of its 2017 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
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The 2017 National Book Award Longlists
The National Book Foundation has announced its longlists for the 2017 National Book Awards. The five finalists in each category will be named on October 4, and the winner will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on November 15.
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Man Booker Prize 2017 Shortlist Announced
The Man Booker Prize has announced its shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and it includes books by Paul Auster and George Saunders.
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2017 NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature Announced
The longlist has been announced for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
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PW Star Watch 2017 Superstar: Gabriella Page-Fort
Gabriella Page-Fort, editorial director at AmazonCrossing, was named PW Star Watch Superstar at a party at New York's Tao Downtown nightclub last night.