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Jerusalem Book Fair Fellowships Information
The Jerusalem International Book Fair American advisory committee announced that the deadline for applications for its editor and agent fellowships for the 2013 Fair has been set for Monday, July 16, 2012.
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'The Black Banners' Wins Ridenhour Book Prize
Ali H. Soufan's The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (W.W. Norton) has won the ninth annual Ridenhour Book Prize, which "honors acts of truth-telling and outstanding works of social significance in publishing."
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Guus Kuijer Winner of 2012 Lindgren Award
Dutch author Guus Kuijer is the 10th winner of the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon at the Bologna Book Fair, in a broadcast direct from Sweden that aired online and to a packed crowd at the Illustrator’s Café. Kuijer was selected from 184 candidates from 66 countries.
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María Teresa Andruetto, Peter Sís Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
The International Board on Books for Young People announced the winners of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards from the Bologna Book Fair on Monday. María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina has won the 2012 Author Award, and Peter Sís from the Czech Republic has won the 2012 Illustrator Award.
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Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Finalists Announced
The ABA has named its finalists in the 2012 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, which honor, in the association’s words, “the types of books that indie booksellers champion best.”
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Kyung-sook Shin Becomes First Woman to Win Man Asian Prize
For her novel, Please Look After Mom, Kyung-sook Shin won the Man Asian Literary Prize, becoming the first woman to win the prize in its five year history.
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Big Night for the Little Guys
It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction prize, thanked her publisher, Lookout Books (the press for the University of North Carolina Wilmington), for choosing her as their debut author. “Little presses and little magazines are dedicated to keeping literature alive, and they deserve thanks from every writer; tonight, particularly from me,” said Pearlman.
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National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to Pearlman, Jasanoff, Gaddis
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman and Liberty's Exiles were among the winners at the NBCC Awards.
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Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards 'Untouchable' and 'Kosher Chinese'
Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award honored Untouchable by Scott O'Connor (fiction) and Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy (nonfiction) at a ceremony in New York on March 7.
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Tale of Rescued Chimps Wins Canadian Non-fiction Prize
Andrew Westoll's study of the lives of rescued chimps wins C$25,000 Canadian non-fiction prize.
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2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Award Finalists Announced
The 2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Awards finalists have been announced by the American Booksellers Association.
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Second Annual Are You a Librarian Superhero Contest Launched
Gale, a part of Cengage learning, has launched the second annual Are you a Librarian Superhero contest to recognize a librarian who is making a difference for their library and community.
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Baldacci, Dawes, Muske-Dukes Win Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards
Poets & Writers has announced that David Baldacci, Kwame Dawes, and Carol Muske-Dukes are the recipients of the 2012 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Kathryn Court is the winner of the editor's award.
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Gal Beckerman Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize
The Jewish Book Council announced that Gal Beckerman was awarded the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his first book, When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone (HMH).
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Grant for Midlist Children's Book Authors Established
Author Jane Yolen and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators have created a new grant to honor midlist authors.
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B&N Names 'Discover Great New Writers' Finalists
Barnes & Noble has announced the six finalists for the 2011 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble.
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ABA and the Center for Fiction Announce Flaherty-Dunnan Partnership
The ABA will select 450 bookstores around the U.S. focused on literary fiction to receive tabletop displays, posters and shelf talkers for the seven shortlisted novels.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Take Home Top Kids’ Prizes
Last Monday, the American Library Association announced its annual Youth Media Awards at its Midwinter conference, held this year in Dallas. The 2012 John Newbery Medal went to author Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt (FSG), a semiautobiographical story set in the town of Norvelt, Pa. The Randolph Caldecott Medal went to Chris Raschka for A Ball for Daisy (Random House/Schwartz & Wade), a wordless picture book about a dog and its beloved red ball. And the Michael L. Printz Award was given to first-time author John Corey Whaley for Where Things Come Back (S&S/Atheneum), about the disappearance of a teenager and the possible reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; Whaley also won the William C. Morris Debut Author Award.