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Bologna 2024: Indigenous Literacy Foundation Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Australia’s Indigenous Literacy Foundation is the winner of the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish krona.
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Bologna 2024: Six International Publishers Win Top Prizes
Each year the Bologna Children’s Book Fair honors a half dozen publishers with the BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year; the 2024 winnerswere announced on April 8.
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Bologna 2024: Heinz Janisch and Sydney Smith Win 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
This year’s recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to authors and illustrators of children’s books, are Austria’s Heinz Janisch, for writing; and Canada’s Sydney Smith, for illustration.
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Hanif Abdurraquib, Kathryn Scanlan Among 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
The 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize winners are Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan for fiction, Christina Sharpe and Hanif Abdurraqib for nonfiction, Christopher Chen and Sonya Kelly for drama, and Jen Hadfield and m. nourbeSe philip for poetry.
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Paul Yoon Wins 20th Annual Story Prize
'The Hive and the Honey' is the winner of this year's Story Prize, which was presented at a ceremony March 26 at the Lotos Club in New York City.
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The 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Safiya Sinclair, Lorrie Moore, and Kim Hyseoon were among those to take home National Book Critics Circle Awards on March 21, at the second in-person ceremony held by the organization since the pandemic.
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Bono's 'Surrender' Wins Audiobook of the Year at 2024 Audie Awards
At the 29th annual Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association and held in Los Angeles on March 4, winners across 27 categories were announced. The night's biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year, went to 'Surrender,' written and narrated by Bono.
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With the Novel Prize, Three Anglophone Publishers Team to Champion Innovative Fiction
The biennial Novel Prize comes with a $10,000 purse and simultaneous publication in North America, by New Directions; the U.K. and Ireland, by Fitzcarraldo; and Australia and New Zealand, by Giramondo. In a twist, this year, the three publishers crowned two winners.
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Glasgow Worldcon Chair Vows Transparency Following Chengdu Hugos Censorship
The chair of Glasgow Worldcon 2024 has announced concrete steps "to ensure transparency and to attempt to redress the grievous loss of trust in the administration of the Awards," along with the resignation of Hugos administrator Kat Jones.
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National Book Awards Expand Eligibility to Non–U.S. Citizens
Beginning this year, authors who "maintain their primary, long-term home in the U.S., U.S. territories, or Tribal lands," in addition to those with U.S. citizenship, will be eligible for consideration in all categories of the National Book Awards.
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Winter Institute 2024: Happenings Back Home Split Some Booksellers’ Attention
A few booksellers attending Winter Institute 2024 have attracted attention on the show floor over unexpected events occurring back home at their stores. For one, B&N is planning to move next door; for another, a spouse's promotion might take him away from his store; for a third, eviction looms.
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Resignations, Censures Follow in Wake of Hugo Awards Controversy
The resignations and disciplinary actions come after it was revealed that certain authors and books—including R.F. Kuang's hit novel 'Babel'—had been inexplicably deemed "not eligible" for the Hugo at Worldcon 2023 in Chengdu, China.
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CALIBA Presents 2024 Golden Poppy Awards
On January 25, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance hosted a streaming award ceremony honoring “the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.”
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2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announced
The NBCC has named its 30 finalists in six categories for this year's awards, which recognize books from the publishing year 2023. ‘Washington Post’ critic Becca Rothfeld, author Judy Blume, and the American Library Association have also won special awards.
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Dave Eggers's Newbery Win: ‘Wandering Around in a Daze’
“I’m reeling a bit, but mostly I’m catatonic—yes, that’s the word!” Dave Eggers described the aftershock of learning of his Newbery win for ‘The Eyes and the Impossible.’
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2024 Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Winners
We spoke with the three big ALA Award winners about their initial reactions to the news.
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A.S. King’s Printz Win: ‘Are You Sure?’
For author A.S. King, family dinner came with an extra helping of surprise last Sunday; that’s when she learned that the short fiction anthology she edited and wrote a story for, ‘The Collectors,’ had won the Michael L. Printz Award.
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Vashti Harrison’s Caldecott Win: Kind of a ‘Big’ Deal
Author–illustrator Vashti Harrison happened to be in Miami to celebrate her father's 89th birthday when—at 9:30 p.m., while sorting laundry—she received the news of her Caldecott win for ‘Big.’
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Rooney, Osman Among Winners at U.K.’s Nielsen BookData Bestseller Awards
Sally Rooney and Richard Osman were among the winners at this year's Nielsen BookData Bestseller Awards, which celebrate titles that passed sales landmarks in print in the U.K. Nielsen reported that 199 million print books were sold in the U.K. in 2023.
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Inaugural Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards Set for Next Month
On February 17, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center and the Fisher Center at Bard College will host the first-ever Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards; in addition, Judy Blume will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Bravery in Literature.
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