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5 Under 35 Honorees for 2012 Named
The National Book Awards will celebrate this year's 5 Under 35 authors on November 12 at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn.
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Elmore Leonard, Arthur Sulzberger Win Lifetime National Book Awards
The National Book Foundation will present its 2012 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Elmore Leonard, and its 2012 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
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Man Booker 2012: Which Finalists Can You Read in the U.S.?
The Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced September 11, picking three men and three women; two debut novelists and one former winner. But which books can you read right now if you live in the U.S.? Here's a roundup of the six finalists.
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2012 PEN Literary Awards Announced
PEN American Center has announed the winners of the 2012 PEN Awards. Winners include Susan Nussbaum for Good Kings Bad Kings (PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction).
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Thurber Prize Finalists Announced
The Thurber Prize for American Humor has selected its three finalists: Nate DiMeo (writer for Parks & Recreation), Patricia Marx (Starting from Happy), and Calvin Trillin (Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin).
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Ann Patchett Wins WNBA Award
The Women's National Book Association has announced Ann Patchett as the winner of the 2012-2013 WNBA Award.
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Random House Teacher Awards Launches
Random House has announced the Random House Teacher Awards, which awards winning teachers with grants.
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Digital-First Books Win Romance Awards
The Romance Writers of America bestowed two of the coveted RITA Awards for romance writing on digital-first publications this weekend at the group's annual conference, which took place in Anaheim, Calif.
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Man Booker 2012 Longlist Announced
This year's longlist of 12 titles has been announced and includes Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies and Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
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Baker & Taylor Gives Two Srnecz Scholarships
The winners are Caitlin Brianna Parker, who will be entering Appalachian State University this fall, and Ashley Lauren Anderson, who will be entering Brigham Young University. Each receive the $3,000 scholarship, which was started to support the higher education of Baker & Taylor employees' children.
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S&S’s Szczerban Wins 2012 Ashmead Award
Michael Szczerban, associate editor at Simon & Schuster, has won the 2012 Ashmead Award.
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Discover Mystery Award Goes to Ronald Sharp
Ronald Sharp has won the first annual Discover Mystery Award and a contract with Poisoned Pen Press for his book No Regrets, No Remorse. Dana Stabenow, an Edgar Award-winning novelist, was the guest judge for the award. For more information on Poisoned Pen Press and the Discover Mystery Award, click here.
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Goes to Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad, the award-winning biographer of The Life of Langston Hughes, literary critic, and professor emeritus at Stanford University, is the winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
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ALA Hands Out First Adult Prizes to Massie, Enright
At its annual convention being held in Anaheim, the American Library Association awarded its first-ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction to Irish novelist Anne Enright for her book The Forgotten Waltz (W.W. Norton). Robert K. Massie, meanwhile, took home top honors for nonfiction for Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House).
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National Book Award Finalists Get Exhibition
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has launched an online exhibition at www.nationalbook.org of the 373 books that were National Book Award Fiction Finalists from 1950 to 2011, some well-known, others nearly forgotten.
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Max Hastings Receives 2012 Pritzker Military Award
British historian Sir Max Hastings has been named the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
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David Harsent and Ken Babstock Win Griffin Poetry Prize
David Harsent’s Night and Ken Babstock’s Methodist Hatchet win the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest.
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Natasha Trethewey Named Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th Poet Laureate, and will open the Library of Congress's annual literary season in the fall with a reading on September 13.
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2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Announced
The 24th annual Benjamin Franklin Awards were announced June 4, honoring excellence in publishing and presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
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Oprah's Book Club Selects 'Wild'
Officially kicking off "Oprah Book Club 2.0" on June 4, Oprah Winfrey has selected Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Random House) as her first pick.