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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.
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The Literature Prize Renamed the Folio Prize
The Literature Prize has become the Folio Prize following the news that its sponsor, providing a winner's check of £40,000, is the Folio Society.
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2013 Books for a Better Life Awards Winners
The New York City – Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society presented the winners of the 17th Annual Books for a Better Life Awards March 11 during a ceremony at The TimesCenter in Manhattan.
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Books for a Better Life Awards Honors Sheehy, Slowik
The New York City – Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will present the winners of the 17th Annual Books for a Better Life Awards Monday night during a ceremony at The TimesCenter in Manhattan.
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Lambda Finalists Named
Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced this week by the Lambda Literary Foundation in Los Angeles
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Shortlist for 'PW' Bookstore and Sales Rep Awards 2013
Five bookstores and six sales representatives are named semi-finalists for the twentieth anniversary PW book industry awards.
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B&N Discover Awards Go to Cheryl Strayed and Amanda Coplin
The 2012 Barnes & Noble Discover Awards went to The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (Harper) for fiction and Wild by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) for nonfiction. The awards were presented at a ceremony in New York on March 6.
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Preston's 'Sword of the Spirit' Wins Top Canadian Lit Prize
It took historian Andrew Preston nearly 10 years to write Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, but his efforts did not go unnoticed. On Monday Preston won one of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards: the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction.
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Yale Awards $1.35M to Nine Writers
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale announced the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes, a new global writer’s award created with a gift from the late Donald Windham and his partner, Sandy M. Campbell.
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Fountain, Solomon Take NBCCs
Although, for various reasons, a number of winners could not be there in person, the National Book Critics Circle awards were handed out February 28 before a large crowd at the New School in New York City.
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2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to 'Billy Lynn,' Solomon, Caro
Big winners at the National Book Critics Circle Awards for the publishing year 2012 were Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon, and Robert A. Caro's fourth volume in his Lyndon Johnson biography.
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Audible and the Center for Fiction Establish Litarary Award on Writing on Illness
The Christopher Doheny Award, which recognizes excellence in fiction or nonfiction on the topic of serious illness, will be administered and awarded annually by The Center for Fiction.
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New National Book Awards Online Submission Process Opens April 1
This year, for the first time, the National Book Foundation will offer an all-online submission process allowing publishers to submit and pay for National Book Award entries using one simple online system.
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Atwood, Lethem, Edugyan Named 2013 Giller Prize Jury
The Giller Prize, recognizing excellence in Canadian fiction (long format or short stories), has named its 2013 Jury: Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan, and Jonathan Lethem. The prize longlist will be announced September 16, 2013 and the winner will be named on November 5. Will Ferguson's 419 won the prize in 2012.
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Princeton University Press Wins Top Honor at PROSE Awards
Officials from the Association of American Publishers have announced that the 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award has been presented to Princeton University Press for Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD.
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B&N Names 'Discover' Finalists
Barnes & Noble has named the six finalists in its annual writing contest, the Discover Great New Writers Award.
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2013 Caldecott Caps Busy Year for Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen was up early on Monday morning – not because he was expecting a career-changing phone call, but because he had a plane to catch.
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'Pure Shock and Surprise' for 2013 Printz Winner Nick Lake
Nick Lake had been working at home in Oxford England for hours when the phone rang.
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Katherine Applegate on Winning the 2013 Newbery
Normally Katherine Applegate would have been in her house in San Francisco the morning that "the call" came in.
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2013 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Coverage
Read PW's coverage of the annual awards from ALA, featuring interviews with the newly minted 2013 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Medalists.