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'New York Times Book Review' Announces Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2016
The 'New York Times Book Review' has revealed the 10 titles on its 64th annual list of Best Illustrated Children's Books.
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Paul Beatty Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize
Paul Beatty has won the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 'The Sellout,' making him the first American author to win the award.
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Exploring Bob Dylan's Slim Bibliography
Rounding up all 'PW' coverage of books penned by the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
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Internet Reacts to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
The Internet proved predictably opinionated upon learning that Bob Dylan had been chosen as the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Bob Dylan Wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Songwriter and lyricist Bob Dylan was named the 109th laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 13, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
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Finalists for 2016 National Book Awards Announced
Among the nominees for this year's awards, which will be given out on November 16, are Colson Whitehead, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Peter Gizzi.
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Finalists Announced for 2016 NBA in Young People's Literature
On Thursday morning, the National Book Foundation narrowed its longlist down to five finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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National Book Foundation Names 5 Under 35
The honorees for the program's eleventh year include Brit Bennett, Yaa Gyasi, Greg Jackson, S. Li, and Thomas Pierce.
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Donoghue, Thien Among the Shortlisted for Canada's Giller Prize
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, includes works by Emma Donoghue and Mona Awad.
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Gene Luen Yang Gets 2016 'Genius Grant'
Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, author of the YA graphic novels 'American Born Chinese' and 'Boxers' and 'Saints,' both nominated for National Book Awards, was among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur fellowships – the so-called Genius Grants.
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NBF Awards Lifetime Achievements to Robert Caro, Cave Canem
The National Book Foundation will present lifetime achievement awards to Robert A. Caro, the journalist and biographer, and Cave Canem, the literary center dedicated to black American poetry, at the National Book Awards ceremony on November 16 in New York.
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Little, Brown Launches Award for New Illustrators
Caldecott Medalist and five-time Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney will act as a judge and the inaugural artist mentor for the first annual Little, Brown Emerging Artist Award.
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PW Star Watch 2016 Superstar: Andrew Harwell
Andrew Harwell, senior editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, was named PW Star Watch Superstar at a party at New York's Dream Downtown hotel on September 15.
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Beatty, Moshfegh Make Man Booker Shortlist
Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay, and Madeleine Thien have been named to the shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
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2016 NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature Announced
The longlist has been announced for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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Rona Jaffe Winners Announced for 2016
The Rona Jaffe Foundation has announced the winners of its eponymous writer's awards for 2016. The awards are given annually to six women writers who "demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers."
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NEH to Endow More than $4 Million in Publishing Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects and programs across the United States, including more than $4 million to book-related projects.
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Write a House Is Building a New Literary City in Detroit
As real estate prices soar in traditional artistic and cultural hubs such as Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, writers are looking toward smaller cities with cheaper rent.
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John Lewis’s ‘March’, Peter Kuper’s ‘Ruins’ Win Eisner Awards
To the delight of the audience at the Eisner ceremonies, John Lewis's 'March Book Two' and Peter Kuper's 'Ruins' won Eisners, while Lynda Barry and Matt Groening were inducted into the Hall of Fame.