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Canadian Nonfiction Prize Rebrands, Adds New Prize
The C$25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is rebranding as the RBC Taylor Prize and adding a new C$10,000 prize for emerging writers.
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Goodreads Reveals Favorite Books of 2013
Goodreads has unveiled its version of a 'best books' list, and this year's favorite among members was Khaled Hosseini's "And the Mountains Echoed."
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Oren Teicher and the ABA Board: 'PW' Person of the Year
For their role in leading the resurgence of independent bookselling, ABA CEO Oren Teicher and the ABA board have been chosen as PW’s Person of the Year.
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Heading Back to Press on NBA Winners
The winners of the National Book Awards on Wednesday are scoring increased print runs with their respective publishers.
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The 2013 National Book Awards: The Best of the Year
Novelist and musician James McBride appeared genuinely stupefied as he reached to accept the National Book Award for Fiction from Charles McGrath, former editor of the New York Times Book Review, at the awards ceremony on November 20. After the shortlist reveal about a month before the awards, McBride was considered an underdog, pitted against better-known writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Rachel Kushner, and Thomas Pynchon.
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McAdam, Moore Awarded Writers’ Trust Prizes
Author Colin McAdam was among the winners of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s annual literary awards, announced on Wednesday, in Toronto. The prize money attached to the awards collectively amounts to C$114,000.
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NBA Young People's Literature Medalist Cynthia Kadohata: On a Streak of 'Luck'
Luck can be found in the title of Cynthia Kadohata's latest novel, The Thing About Luck, which has just won the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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NBA Young People's Literature Finalists: A Photo-Essay
On Wednesday evening, November 20, five children's book authors, dressed in their finery, headed to Cipriani Wall Street for the 64th National Book Awards.
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2013 National Book Awards Go to McBride, Packer, Szybist, Kadohata
The winners included Cynthia Kadohata for The Thing About Luck (Young People’s Literature), Mary Szybist for Incarnadine (Poetry), George Packer for The Unwinding (Nonfiction), and James McBride for The Good Lord Bird (Fiction).
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Read Russia Extends Deadline for First Translation Prize
The Read Russia Prize is devoted to newly published Russian works in English translation.
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'Everything Store' Named Business Book of the Year
The Everything Store, Brad Stone's look at Amazon and Jeff Bezos, was won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2013.
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HC Canada Awards New Lit Prize
Karim Alrawi wins the first HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction as part of the 50th anniversary of the UBC creative writing program.
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Dowlatabadi Wins Jan Michalski Lit Prize
In the breathtaking surroundings of the Maison de l'Ecriture in Montricher, Switzerland, the fourth Jan Michalski Literary Prize was awarded to Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi for his novel The Colonel.
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Ulfers Prize Goes to Bershtel
The German Book Office has announced the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers prize winner as Sara Bershtel, publisher of Metropolitan Books.
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Friedman Wins Sami Rohr Prize
The Jewish Book Council named this year's winner for the literary award with one of the largest literary purses.
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Coady Wins Canada’s Giller Prize for Fiction
Short stories are hot in Canada this fall. Not long after Alice Munro won the Nobel, Lynn Coady has won the C$50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for 2013 for her short story collection, Hellgoing.
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Library of Congress Names James Patterson 'Champion' – of Literacy
On November 4, 2013 the Library of Congress welcomed the bestselling author as the first Champion of the Young Readers Center.
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Polly Horvath and Groundwood Take Top Honors at Canadian Awards
Groundwood Books had a good night at the 2013 Canadian Children's Literature Awards celebration in Toronto on October 22.
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Afghan War Memoir Wins Canadian Nonfiction Prize
Young war correspondent's memoir of the West's failure in Afghanistan wins Canada's biggest prize for nonfiction.
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Finalists for 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Announced
The National Book Foundation narrowed its longlist down to five finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.