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Award Honorees to Receive over $1M at Yale Literary Festival
The honorees of the Yale Literary Festival will receive the inaugural Donald Windham and Sandy M. Campbell Literary Prizes.
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National Book Foundation to Honor Doctorow and Angelou
The National Book Foundation announced it will award its 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to E. L. Doctorow and its 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Dr. Maya Angelou.
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2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship Winners Announced
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced Harmony Holiday, Matthew Nienow, Hannah Sanghee Park, Natalie Shapero and Phillip B. Williams as the five recipients of the 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowships.
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Lambda Literary Foundation Opens Award Submissions
The foundation announced that they will, for the first time, be awarding awarding a prize for LGBT graphic novels in a separate category.
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2013 Hugo Award Winners Announced
Scalzi took home the prize for best novel for the comedic Redshirts.
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Sergio De La Pava's Path to the PEN
When the PEN American Center announced their literary awards last week, the big winner in the debut fiction category was a book with an unconventional path from an unlikely publisher.
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PEN Announces 2013 Award Winners
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo, the historian Tom Reiss, and originally self-published author Sergio De la Pava were among the winners.
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Southern Restaurant Serves Up Book Prize
Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist names 12 titles for finalists as exceptional debut novels set in the American South.
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Wendell Berry Wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced that writer and activist Wendell Berry will receive the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
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Binc Awards $100,000 in Scholarships
The Binc Foundation has announced the recipients of their 2013 Academic Scholarship Program
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NEA to Award $250,000 in Translation Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $250,000 in recommended grants to 16 translators to support the translation of works into English from 13 languages and 15 countries.
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Chris Ware Wins Four Eisner Awards, Brian K. Vaughan Takes Three
Chris Ware’s graphic novel-in-a-box, Building Stories (Pantheon), won four Eisner Awards including Best New Graphic Novel and Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga (Image) received three Eisners at the 25th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
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BISG Creates Industry Awards
The Book Industry Study Group will present its first ever industry awards at its annual meeting on September 27, in New York City.
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Jessica Williams Wins Ashmead Award
Jessica Williams, assistant editor at William Morrow, is the third recipient of The Ashmead Award.
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Shelton and Fickling Win Branford Boase Award
The 2013 Branford Boase Award was awarded Thursday to Dave Shelton and his editor David Fickling for A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.
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PEN American Center 2013 Literary Awards Shortlists
PEN American Center, the international human rights and literary organization, announced the shortlisted titles and judges for the 2013 PEN Literary awards.
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Nat'l Book Foundation Adds Three Board Members
The National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards, elected three new members to its board of directors.
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Carolina Wren Press Comes Full Circle
With a renewed focus on acquiring distinctly southern works, and a new prize named for best-selling author Lee Smith, Carolina Wren Press comes full circle.
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National Book Award Inspires Artwork for Children's Books
The National Book Foundation has launched Up All Night, an online exhibit of 228 children's titles that have won or been nominated for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.
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Desser Wins Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in Fiction
The Center for Fiction has named Robin Desser, executive v-p, editorial director of Knopf, as the recipient of the 2013 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.