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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley: Where They Were When the Award Call Came
Three lucky authors got phone calls from the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz committees, letting each of them know they had won the top prize.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Jack Gantos has won the 2012 Newbery Medal for Dead End in Norvelt, Chris Raschka has won the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy, and John Corey Whaley has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Where Things Come Back.
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Eugenides and Hochschild Among 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists
At a gala event at Artists Space in downtown New York, the NBCC announced its finalists for awards for 2011 books in six categories, along with winners of two honorary citations. Click to read our reviews of all of the finalist books.
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2012 Edgar Award Nominees Announced
Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction. The winners will be announced at a gala banquet on April 26 in New York.
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2011 Story Prize Finalists: DeLillo, Millhauser, Pearlman
The finalists for this year's Story Prize are The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo (Scribner), We Others by Steven Millhauser (Knopf), and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books).
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Walter Dean Myers Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
As a kid growing up in Harlem, Walter Dean Myers admits he often led with his fists and struggled academically before dropping out of high school at 17 to join the army. But in the decades since, he's proved to be a master at using words to make his case — a skill that will be in high demand as he becomes the nation's third Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He succeeds Katherine Paterson, who has served since 2010.
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Australia Names Two Children's Laureates
Alison Lester and Boori Pryor have been named Australia's first-ever Children's Laureates. They will travel to every state and territory in the country during their two-year terms, “to inspire as many children to read as possible.”
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Liksom Takes the 2011 Finlandia Prize
The Trans-Siberian Express is the backdrop for the winning novel Compartment No. 6 (or Hytti no. 6 in Finnish) for the 2011 Finlandia Prize.
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Russian Booker of the Decade Goes to Chudakov
Alexander Chudakov won the Russian Booker of the Decade with A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps, a novel that was short-listed for the 2001 Russian Booker Prize.
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Letters, Blizzard and Magic at Russia's 2011 Big Book Award
At this year’s Big Book Award, the biggest literary award in Russia, held at the Russian National Library’s Pashkov House, the winners were familiar names with proven literary credentials.
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NBA Winners Get Audiobooks from Recorded Books
Recorded Books will publish audiobooks of the 2011 National Book Awards winners in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young people's literature.
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Percy Siblings Both Get NEA Grants
As PW reported on Friday, the National Endowment for the Arts is awarding 863 grants totaling $22.5 million to organizations and individual writers across the country. Two of those individual writers are siblings: Benjamin Percy and Jennifer Percy.
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NBA Winners Going Back to Press
The four winners at Wednesday's National Book Awards are all getting rewarded by their publishers with increased print runs.
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NEA Gives $22 Million Across 863 Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country, totaling $22.5 million.
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PW Talks with NBA Winner Thanhha Lai
"This is more than I could have ever expected from telling one little story." With those words Thanhha Lai accepted the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature this past Wednesday night.
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National Book Awards 2011: The Finalists in Their Finery
The National Book Awards dinner is a gala affair, and while there can only be one winner, it's a huge event for all of the finalists. Our photographer caught up with each of the finalists in the Young People's Literature category last night.
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National Book Awards Go to Lai, Finney, Greenblatt, and Ward
The big winners at the 2011 National Book Awards were Thanhha Lai, Nikky Finney, Stephen Greenblatt, and Jesmyn Ward.
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Winners Named in the Tenth Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Lit Awards
The 10th annual Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright Legacy Awards for outstanding contributions to literature by African American writers were presented November 10th at a ceremony in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
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