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Mantel Wins Costa Award
Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies has won another major literary award, taking home the Costa Book Award and its £30,000 prize. Late last year, the novel won the Booker Prize (as did the previous book in her series, Wolf Hall), making Bring Up the Bodies the only book to win the Booker and the Costa in the same year.
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Award for Southern Fiction Expands to Middle Grade
The Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, sponsored by the Reba and Dave Williams Foundation for Literature and the Arts, is expanding with a new prize, The Willie Morris Award for Middle Grade Readers.
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Applegate, Klassen, Lake Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Katherine Applegate has won the 2013 Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan (Harper); Jon Klassen has won the 2013 Randolph Caldecott Medal for This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick); and Nick Lake has won the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award for In Darkness (Bloomsbury).
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Bologna Book Fair Establishes New Prize
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and for the first time, BolognaFiere and the Italian Publishers Association will award the BOP – the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year.
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2013 Man Booker International Prize Finalists Announced
Ten writers are on the judges’ list of finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognizes one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The finalists include Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson.
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2013 Edgar Nominations Announced
Mystery Writers of America has announced the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards nominees, to be presented on May 2, 2013 in New York. Among the nominees are Gillian Flynn, Dennis Lehane, and Walter Mosley, all nominated for Best Novel. For a full list of the nominees, check out the Edgars Web site.
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National Book Awards to Add Longlist
In an effort to broaden the reach and impact of the National Book Awards, the National Book Foundation will select a longlist of 10 titles in each of its four categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature), beginning in 2013. In addition, judges comprising the four panels will no longer be limited to writers.
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Chaon, Diaz and Watkins Named Story Prize Finalists
The nine-year-old Story Prize, which honors short story collections, has named its three finalists for 2012.
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2012 National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced
The 30 finalists in six categories for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Click through for the full list.
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The Call That Changes Everything – or Not
How does winning the Newbery or Caldecott medal change the lives of the winners? PW caught up with each of the medalists of the past five years to find out.
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2013 Charles Taylor Prize Shortlist Announced
The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, which recognizes excellence in Canadian non-fiction writing, has its five nominees for 2013.
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Call for Nominations: 2013’s PW Bookstore and PW Rep of the Year
Publishers Weekly is readying its annual awards for PW Bookstore and PW Sales Rep of the Year, launched two decades ago. The deadline for nominations is March 1.
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Record Number of Entries for AAP’s 2013 PROSE Awards
Officials from the the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers say they’ve received a record number of entries for this year’s Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards. And, this year, those interested in the judging process can get "sneak peeks" into the the judging, which takes place in New York, via Twitter.
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40 Books Nominated for NAACP Image Awards
The NAACP Image Awards include 40 nominees for Outstanding Literary works in 9 categories and represent titles published by major houses, indie presses and self-publishers.
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Great American Fiction Winner Announced by Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post has named Lucy Jane Bledsoe as the winner of the first Great American Fiction Contest for her story "Wolf." The story will be published in the January/February 2013 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and on the magazine's Web site.
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Unique Translation Prize Aims For U.S. Publication
Kurt Beals has won the first ever German Book Office translation competition, giving him a $600 commission to translate the first 15 pages of Nora Bossong’s novel Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung into English.
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Self-Published Title Wins Mississippi Author Award
Stokes McMillan's self-published book, One Night of Madness, was named winner of the 2012 Mississippi Author Award.
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Books For a Better Life 2012 Finalists Announced
The New York City – Southern New York Chapter of the National MS Society has announced the finalists for the 17th Annual Books for a Better Life Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, March 11, 2013 during the awards ceremony at The Times Center in Manhattan. The event, hosted by television personality Meredith Vieira, will honor George Slowik, Jr., president of PW and bestselling author Gail Sheehy.
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Library of Congress Gets $1.5 Million for New Literacy Awards
David Rubenstein, a cofounder of the Carlyle Group and a major donor to the Library of Congress, will contribute $1.5 million to fund three new Library of Congress annual literacy awards over five years.
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