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5 Under 35 Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2011 5 Under 35: Shani Boianjiu, Danielle Evans, Mary Beth Keane, Melinda Moustakis, John Corey Whaley.
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Shortlist For Giller Revealed
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s richest prize for fiction, was announced Tuesday morning in Toronto.
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Rakoff Wins Thurber Prize for Humor
David Rakoff won the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book, Half Empty.
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Portland Author Finds Literary Love on the International Prize Circuit
Anyone who's spent time in the rights center at an international book fair might not recognize the romanticism of what's happening. Yes, people are importing and exporting literature, but, by the looks of it, you would think they're selling widgets. The set-up at Frankfurt, where the rights center is a windowless room lit by bad fluorescents and filled with rows of identical desks, speaks to the work happening.
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Lifetime Achievement National Book Awards Go to Ashbery and Kaplan
Poet John Ashbery will receive the 2011 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 62nd National Book Awards Ceremony and Mitchell Kaplan, bookseller and co-founder of the Miami International Book Fair, will receive the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
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Shortlist Announced for Financial Times Business Book of the Year
The finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award are Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo; Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen; Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser; Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan; Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt; The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin.
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National Book Awards Finalists To Be Revealed at Oregon Literary Arts Center
The 20 finalists for the 62nd National Book Awards will be announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting's morning radio program, Think Out Loud, in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland, Oregon on October 12.
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German Book Prize 2011 Finalists Announced
The six finalists for the German Book Prize 2011 have been chosen. They are: Against the World by Jan Brandt; Das Wunderhorn by Michael Buselmeier; The Girl by Angelika Klüssendorf; Blumenberg by Sibylle Lewitscharoff; In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge; The Hurtress by Marlene Steeruwitz.
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PEN Center USA Announces 2011 Literary Award Winners
PEN Center USA, a literary nonprofit based in Beverly Hills, Calif., has announced the winners of the organization’s 2011 Literary Awards competition.
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Rona Jaffe Winners Announced
The winners of this year's Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, which awards a $25,000 prize to six female authors, have been named.
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Man Booker Shortlist Announced
Two debut novelists, Stephen Kelman and A.D. Miller, are among the six titles in contention for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The shortlist is dominated by independent publishers, though not featuring any of the smaller indies who featured on the 13-title long list.
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Readers Get a Vote for Canada's Biggest Fiction Prize
Readers now have an opportunity to vote for their favorite title for the C$50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s richest fiction prize.
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Man Booker Presented to Roth, American Man Booker Strong Possibility
Philip Roth became the fourth honoree and first American recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. Meanwhile, talk is growing about starting up an American Man Booker prize.
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Ness, Baker-Smith Win Carnegie, Greenaway in U.K.
In a ceremony on Thursday, Patrick Ness was presented with the 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Monsters of Men (Walker Books), the final volume of his Chaos Walking trilogy. The 2011 Kate Greenaway Medal was presented to Grahame Baker-Smith for FArTHER (Templar).
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Carlo D’Este Wins Pritzker Military Writing Award
Carlo D’Este has been selected to receive the 2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation, will be presented on October 22, 2011.
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SCBWI Announces First Crystal Kite Awards
The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators recently announced the winners of its inaugural Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, selected by votes cast by the organization's worldwide membership.
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The Larry Ashmead Award for Editors
Friends and colleagues of Larry Ashmead have teamed up to create an annual award for young book editors dedicated to the memory of the late editor. Announced this week, the award will go to one young editor with “approximately four years’ experience” nominated by an “established” publisher or editor.
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Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize to be One of Canada's Largest
Nonfiction is sometimes overshadowed by its more glamorous fictional sibling, but the genre got a boost yesterday in Canada when one of the country’s wealthiest families stepped up to sponsor the Writers’ Trust of Canada Nonfiction Prize.
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Amazon Renews Grant for Lambda Literary Foundation
Lambda Literary Foundation, the national nonprofit organization for the LGBT literary community, has received renewal of a grant of $25,000 from Amazon. The renewal represents Amazon’s continued support for the Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, which this year will be held August 6 through 13 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.
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IBPA Announces Ben Franklin Award Finalists
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists in the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards. The three finalists in each of the 50 categories were selected from among nearly 1,300 entries, and one winner per category will be announced at the Benjamin Franklin Awards ceremony on Monday evening, May 23, at the Javits Center in New York on the eve of BookExpo America 2011.
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