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Catton's 'Magnificent, Awesome' Novel Takes the Booker
The Canadian-born author of The Luminaries is only the second New Zealander to win the award.
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2013 National Book Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2013 National Book Awards were announced this morning on Morning Joe. Four of the five fiction nominees are published by Penguin Random House.
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Eleanor Catton Wins 2013 Man Booker Prize
Her novel, The Luminaries, beat out some big names, including Jhumpa Lahiri and Colm Tóibín.
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Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy called the author a "master of the contemporary short story."
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Terézia Mora Wins German Book Prize
On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Her Das Ungeheuer was honored as the year's best German-language novel.
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Shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Announced
Five finalists for Canada's biggest fiction prize, the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, named Tuesday morning.
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2013 Dayton Peace Prize Winners Announced
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards committee announced yesterday that Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon and The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson have been named the winners of the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction and fiction, respectively.
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BIO Kicks Off New Biography Competition
The Biographers International Organization announced it will be awarding its inaugural Rowley Prize for Best Proposal for a First Biography on May 17, 2014 at the Compleat Biographer Conference in Boston.
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Pine, Bittman to Be Books for a Better Life Honorees
Agent Richard Pine of InkWell Management and author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman will receive the Hall of Fame award at the 18th annual Books for a Better Life awards ceremony on March 10 in New York City.
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Man Booker Change Welcomed, Skeptically
Publishers have welcomed the broadening of the Man Booker Prize to include U.S. entries, while remaining concerned about the limits placed on the number of titles they can enter.
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Shortlist Announced for 'Financial Times' and Goldman Sachs Lit Award
The winner will be revealed on November 18 at an award dinner in London.
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2013 National Book Award Fiction Longlist Announced
NBF will announce the finalists on October 16, and the winners on November 20.
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2013 National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist Announced
The Foundation revealed its third 2013 longlist, following announcements of longlists for Young People's Fiction and Poetry earlier in the week.
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NBF Announces Poetry Longlist
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2013 National Book Award Longlist for Poetry.
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Scotiabank Giller Prize Announces 2013 Longlist
Dennis Bock and Claire Messud are among the writers on the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 longlist.
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NBF Reveals YPL Longlist
The National Book Foundation announced the 2013 Young People's Literature longlist for the National Book Award.
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National Book Foundation Names 5 Under 35 Winners
Molly Antopol, NoViolet Bulawayo, Amanda Coplin, Daisy Hildyard, and Merritt Tierce have been named the recipients of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 awards.
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2013 Man Booker Shortlist Announced
Jhumpa Lahiri, Colm Toibin, as well as some lesser-known names round out the final field.
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Rona Jaffe Winners Named
The winners of the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards have been announced.
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BISG Announces Shortlists for Inaugural Industry Awards
Among the awards are commendations for a Friend of the Industry, Industry Innovation, Most Valuable Committee Participant, as well as a Disruptor Award recognizing an individual or organization fundamentally challenging the state of publishing.