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National Book Foundation Awards Innovations in Reading Prizes
The Board of the National Book Foundation has awarded its third annual Innovations in Reading Prizes. The winners are Burton Freeman, of My Own Book; Kore Press; Electric Literature/Electric Publisher; and YARN.
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Publishers Association Announces Christian Book Awards
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association announced the winners of its 2011 Christian Book Awards last night at a banquet kicking off its Executive Leadership Summit in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Audies Finalists Announced
The Audio Publishers Association has announced three finalists for the Audiobook of the Year Award and six finalists for the Distinguished Achievement in Production Award. The winners will be announced at the Audies Gala awards ceremony on May 24 at The TimesCenter in New York City.
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Bui Chat of Vietnam Wins IPA Freedom to Publish Prize
Bui Chat, founder of Giay Vun Publishing in Vietnam, has been named as the recipient of this year’s IPA Freedom to Publish Prize. He will receive the award from IPA president YoungSuk “Y.S” Chi in a ceremony later today at the 37th Buenos Aires International Book Fair.
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National Book Award Entries Available, Judges Announced
Publishers' entry guidelines for the 2011 National Book Awards are now available from the National Book Foundation. Publishers can request the guidelines by emailing Amy Gall at agall@nationalbook.org. The National Book Foundation has also announced the 20 writers who will serve as judges for the 2011 National Book Awards. The judges include finalists for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, as well as winners of the Bancroft Prize, the Jackson Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the World Fantasy Award.
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Jennifer Egan, Ron Chernow Win Pulitzers
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. The fiction prize went to A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf), who also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction this year.
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Asian Publisher to Receive International Publishers Association Prize
An as-yet-unnamed publisher from Asia has been selected by the International Publishers Association as the recipient of the 2011 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize. The publisher’s name is being withheld so that the publisher may leave the country, and will be announced in an award ceremony during the 37th Buenos Aires International Book Fair on April 25.
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Austin Ratner Wins Jewish Literature Prize for 'The Jump Artist'
The Jewish Book Council has named Austin Ratner the winner of the $100,000 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in fiction for his debut novel, The Jump Artist (Bellevue Literary Press). The council also named Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic (Algonquin), the 2011 runner-up and recipient of the $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Choice Award.
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Eisenberg Wins PEN/Faulkner
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (Picador) was named the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner award. The collection brings together stories from four different volumes of Eisenberg's work, including Twilight of the Superheroes, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner in 2007. The judges selected Eisenberg's book from among 320 submissions--both novels and short story collections--and she will receive a $15,000 prize.
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'Arabic Booker' Prize Shared By Two Authors
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction was awarded to Raja Alem, a Saudi and the first woman to win the prize, which began in 2008, for her novel, The Dove's Necklace, which explores the secret world of Mecca. She shared the prize of $50,000 with Mohammed Achaari of Morocco. His novel, The Arch and the Butterfly, takes on Islamic extremism and its impact on one family.
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NBCC Awards Night
The 36th annual NBCC Awards took place March 10 at the New School in Manhattan.
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Egan, Wilkerson Among NBCC Winners
The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book awards Thursday evening in a ceremony at the New School in New York City. The fiction winner was Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (Knopf); the nonfiction winner was Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House); and the biography winner was Sarah Bakewell, who wrote How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Other Press).
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APA Announces Audie Finalists
The Audio Publishers Association has announced its 2011 Audies nominees. More than 1,100 titles entered the competition this year, breaking last year’s record.
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Foran Wins Taylor Prize
Author and journalist Charles Foran has won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for his biography of Canadian literary lion Mordecai Richler.
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'Matterhorn' Wins Colby Award
Karl Marlantes’s novel inspired by his experiences serving in Vietnam, Matterhorn (Atlantic Monthly), which took him more than 30 years to write, has won this year’s William E. Colby Award. The $5,000 prize is named for the late Ambassador and former CIA director and recognizes a debut novel or nonfiction book that has made a significant contribution to the public’s understanding of intelligence operations, military history, or international affairs.
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Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction Calls for Entries
The University of Alabama School of Law and The ABA Journal are requesting entries for the first annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The prize will be awarded annually to a published book-length work of fiction that best exemplifies the role of lawyers in society, and their power to effect change.
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'Hello? It's the ALA Calling': Stead and Vanderpool on Winning the Big Prize
When you win a Newbery or a Caldecott Medal, you find out in an early morning phone call—and your life is changed in an instant. Both Erin Stead and Clare Vanderpool received that call this past Monday morning; we spoke with both of them to find out where they were when the phone rang, what their reactions were, and what they did next.
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Midwesterners Sweep Top Awards
Those interested in the American Library Association's youth media awards, announced Monday morning, have probably already noticed that Clare Vanderpool, this year's Newbery Medalist, is a debut novelist, and that Erin Stead, this year's Caldecott Medalist, is a debut book illustrator. What’s also unusual about this year's crop of award recipients is how many of them don’t live on either coast. In fact, Midwestern authors and illustrators literally swept the most prestigious of the ALA prizes this year, winning both the Newbery and the Caldecott Medals, as well as the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award.
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No 'Today Show' for Vanderpool or Stead
It's become a tradition that, the day after the Youth Media awards are announced at ALA's midwinter meeting, the Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners are interviewed live on the Today Show. But for the first time in 11 years, there was no special coverage featuring the newly minted Medalists.
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Vanderpool, Stead, Bacigalupi Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Clare Vanderpool has won the 2011 Newbery Medal for Moon Over Manifest (Delacorte), edited by Michelle Poploff. Erin E. Stead has won the 2011 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Brook/Porter), written by Philip C. Stead, edited by Neal Porter. And Paolo Bacigalupi has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Ship Breaker (Little, Brown), edited by Jennifer Hunt. The awards were announced Monday morning at the American Library Association’s midwinter conference in San Diego.
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