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WNBA Announces 2013 Pannell Award Winners
A pair of Michigan booksellers – Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, and Bookbug in Kalamazoo – were honored.
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Lehane Takes Home First Edgar
It took 18 years, and 10 books, but Dennis Lehane finally got to take home a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe. At the 67th Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held Thursday night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, his Live by Night (Morrow), about a cop’s son gone bad, was named the Best Novel of the year by the Mystery Writers of America.
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National Book Awards Entry Forms Due June 3
The National Book Foundation is accepting entries for the 2013 National Book Awards through June 3. Click through for important dates and a link to the entry form.
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Erotic Canadian Novel Awarded 2012 Believer Book Award
Tamara Faith Berger's novel Maidenhead, published by Toronto's Coach House Books, has been named by The Believer magazine as the "strongest and most under-appreciated" fiction book of the year.
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Plutarch Biography Award Held May 18
For the first time ever, biographers will determine the best biography of the year when they bestow the Plutarch Award at BIO’s annual Compleat Biographer Conference in New York City on May 18. Click through for nominees.
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2013 Pulitzer Winners Get Sales Spike
It's only been one week since the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, but all five books that were awarded have already started to see the effects in sales.
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'Bamboo Stalk' Wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi has been announced as the winner of the sixth International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The winner was named by this year’s Chair of Judges, the Egyptian writer and academic Galal Amin, at a prize ceremony in Abu Dhabi. In addition to winning $50,000, Alsanousi is guaranteed an English translation of his novel.
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New Video Throws Spotlight on Newbery Authors
Seven Newbery Medal and Honor recipients discuss what the award means to them in a new video.
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ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals
The American Library Association has announced six books as finalists for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the U.S.
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'Yellow Birds' and 'Far From the Tree' Lead 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
The Cleveland Foundation has announced the winners of the 78th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
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Editing Two Pulitzer Winners in One Year: 'PW' Talks with David Ebershoff
The 2013 Pulitzer winners produced the rare feat of two books edited by the same person. David Ebershoff, editor of The Orphan Master's Son and Embers of War, is also an author (his latest book is The 19th Wife). PW caught up with Ebershoff just after he heard the prize announcement.
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2013 Pulitzer Prize: 'Orphan Master' Brings Fiction Prize Back
Last year's biggest Pulitzer announcement was the one that wasn't made, as the board decided not to award a fiction winner for the first time since 1977. This year's announcement was less controversial, as prizes were given in every category, including Fiction for Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son (Random House).
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2013 Thriller Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2013 Thriller Awards have been announced by International Thriller Writers (ITW). Winners will be announced at the Grand Hyatt in New York on July 13.
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UJA to Honor Ingram, Lazarus
Ingram chairman and CEO John Ingram will be honored at the May 8 UJA-Federation of New York's annual Publishing Division Dinner.
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Diane Gilliam Wins Freedom Award
Poet Diane Gilliam has won the 6th Gift of Freedom Award, presented by A Room of Her Own Foundation. The prize is $50,000.
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Square Books Named 'PW' Bookstore of the Year; Miller Rep
The PW Bookstore of the Year Award goes to Square Books on the historic town square of Oxford, Miss. Bruce Joshua Miller of Miller Trade Book Marketing, who led the fight to save the University of Missouri Press last May was selected as the Rep of the Year.
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2013 National Book Awards Judges Announced
As announced in January, this year, for the first time since the 1970s, National Book Award judging panels will include not only writers but other literary experts.
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National Book Foundation, Pratt Unveil Novel to Screen Film Fest
The National Book Foundation and Pratt Institute have partnered to present an inaugural film festival featuring three National Book Award-nominated books that were adapted into film: Lolita, The Cool World, and The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
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Isol Wins 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Argentinean author, illustrator, and musician Isol has won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize. The award was announced Tuesday in a presentation from Vimmerby, Sweden, which was broadcast live online, as well as to gathered crowds at the Bologna Book Fair.
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Watkins Wins Story Prize
Claire Vaye Watkins was the winner of this year’s Story Prize, awarded to the best short story collection of 2012. Battleborn, a collection of 10 short stories set in the American West, was published by Riverhead.