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Arabic-Language Children’s Prize to Launch
Arabic-language children’s publishers have a new book prize: the Etisalat Award for Arab Children’s literature, which promises one million dirham ($270,000) to the best Arab children’s book of the year. The award will be presented for the first time during the annual Sharjah World Book Fair this November.
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Patterson Among Five Reading Innovators Honored by National Book Foundation
The board of the National Book Foundation has awarded its first Innovations in Reading Prizes. The board selected the winners—one individual and four organizations—because of their innovative efforts to share their love of books and reading at a grassroots level, both in their communities and online. Each winner will receive $2,500 and a certificate.
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The Edgars Celebrate 63 Years
In Edgar Allan Poe’s bicentennial year, the Mystery Writers of America paid more than usual tribute to the mystery genre’s founder at their annual dinner, held the night of April 30 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan.
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Pannell Awards Announced
The 2009 Pannell Awards have been announced. In the children's specialty category, the winner is Mrs. Nelson’s Toy and Book Shop in LaVerne, Calif. In the general bookstore category, the winner is Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, with honorable mention going to That Bookstore in Blytheville, in Blytheville, Ark.
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L.A. Times Book Prizes Announced
The Los Angeles Times presented its 29th annual book prizes on Friday night, on the eve of its annual Festival of Books.
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Willen Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt senior editor Drenka Willen was in London to accept the sixth annual lifetime achievement award for international publishing.
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The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama
Adding a Pulitzer to her National Book Award, Annette Gordon-Reed has been awarded the prize for her monumental historical work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Norton). The book also won the 2009 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Howe Wins Lilly Poetry Prize
Novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet Fanny Howe has been awarded one of the nation’s largest literary prizes, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Life Achievement.
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Big Night for National Book Critics Circle
At last Thursday's National Book Critics Circle Awards dinner, Roberto Bolaño and Dexter Filkins were the winners in the fiction and nonfiction categories at a well-attended ceremony at the New School in New York City. The status of book reviewing was the theme for the evening, and in his acceptance speech after receiving the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Ron Charles,...
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Filkins, Bolaño Among 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
At a well-attended ceremony at the New School in New York City, the National Book Critics Circle gave out the its awards for publishing year 2008.
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Finalists Announced for $100,000 Jewish Literature Prize
The five fiction finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is: Elisa Albert for TheBook of Dahlia (Free Press); Sana Krasikov for One More Year (Spiegel & Grau); Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson (Soho Press); Dalia Sofer for The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco); and Anya Ulinich for Petropolis (Viking Penguin).
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Robinson, Bolaño Among 2008 NBCC Award Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2008 awards at a well-attended event at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City Saturday night.
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NBA Finalists Take Teens Behind Their Books
For the 11th year running, the National Book Foundation held a National Book Awards Teen Press Conference, which allows the five nominees in the Young People’s Literature category to read for and field questions from their books’ audience—teenagers.
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Blundell Wins NBA in Young People’s Literature
The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature was given Wednesday night to Judy Blundell, for her novel What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic Press), a noirish coming-of-age mystery set just after World War II.
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Peter Matthiessen, Annette Gordon Reed Among National Book Award Winners
The 2008 National Book Awards ceremony was held Wednesday night at Cipriani on Wall Street in downtown New York City. Cipriani was a new location for the awards. Host Eric Bogosian opened the ceremony by noting that Barack Obama’s win in the Presidential election is good news for many, including those attending the awards ceremony because he “is a reader and a writer.” Obama’s election was, in fact, a recurring theme among the evening speakers.
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Amber Qureshi
Like most high-powered literary editors at major trade publishers, Amber Qureshi, a senior editor at Free Press, earned an undergraduate degree in advanced mathematics, specifically a branch called Algebraic Topology. Of course, she followed that up with the obligatory graduate work in Econometrics—in Japan.
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Celebrating Children's Book Week
As Children’s Book Council board member Simon Boughton greeted the crowd at Tuesday night’s gala event at the New York Times, “Happy Children’s Book Week!” And what a week it has shaped up to be. Children’s Book Week, traditionally celebrated in November, was moved to May for the first time this year, with many events throughout the week and a renewed energy for promoting the joys of reading to the nation’s young readers.
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NBCC Suggests Spring and Summer "Good Reads"
The third installment of the National Book Critics Circle's "Good Reads" list includes new books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Honor Moore and Marie Howe.
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Schubiger and Innocenti Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
A swedish author and an Italian illustrator were named the winners of this year's Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
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Young Lions Finalists Announced
The five authors up for this year's Young Lion's award--given annually by the New York Public Library to promising young writers--have been announced. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Library on April 28.
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