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Quill Awards Program Suspended
PW’s parent company, Reed Business Information, has announced plans to suspend support of the Quill Awards program.
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$100,000 Prize to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (HarperCollins/Ecco). The prize—administered by the Jewish Book Council--carries a $100,000 cash award.
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$100,000 Prize to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (HarperCollins/Ecco). The prize—administered by the Jewish Book Council--carries a $100,000 cash award.
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First-Ever Essence Literary Awards Celebrate African-American Writers
The inaugural Essence Literary Awards took place last Thursday. Among the winners were The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (Unbridled Books) and Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf). Terry McMillan received a lifetime achievement award and Bishop T.D. Jakes received a “President’s Award.”
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Coetzee, Sacks and Others Among NBCC's "Good Reads"
Following up and renaming this past fall's “Best Recommended List,” yesterday the NBCC launched a list of book recommendations now called “NBCC’s Good Reads.”
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Booksellers React to Top Children’s Prizes
The results are in, and this year’s roster of American Library Association awards yielded a number of surprises. Children’s booksellers shared their thoughts on the winners named in Monday’s Newbery, Caldecott and Printz announcements.
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Diaz, Oates, Danticat Among 2007 NBCC Finalists
The finalists for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award were announced on Saturday, January 12, at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Finalists include Junot Diaz, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat and Joan Acocella.
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The Year in Awards
If you got through the whole year without having to change into formal wear in the office restroom, here's a sampling of what you missed—other than the pigs in a blanket. (The rosters of winners for some of the more magnanimous prizes have been abridged.) • Newbery Medal • The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (S&S/Atheneum/Jackson) • Cal...
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NBCC Ethics By the numbers
57.3: Percentage of review editors who believe it is ethical to assign a review to an author acquaintance. 34.4: Percentage of review editors who believe it is acceptable for a reviewer to back out of writing a review to avoid negative criticism of a book. 34.4: Percentage of review editors who believe it is unacceptable for a reviewer to back out of writing a review to avoid negative criticism...
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NBCC Polls Members' Ethics
Sixty-four percent of accredited book reviewers feel that critics who write an unpaid blurb for a book should be banned from publishing a full review. And 76% of critics feel that if you haven't read a work cover to cover you shouldn't be critiquing it in print. These are just some of the findings of the NBCC's 2007 ethics survey, the first one the organization has done in 20 years.
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NBCC Launches Alternative to Bestseller Lists
In an attempt to provide an alternative to sales-driven bestsellers lists, the NBCC is launching a monthly list of recommendations compiled based on polls of well-known writers and critics, and NBCC members.
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A Winning Night
The ghost of Norman Mailer, who died November 10, seemed to preside over the 58th annual National Book Awards, held November 14 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City's Times Square. Indeed, this year's gala awards ceremony was marked by the oddly appropriate combination of an unruly picketline of strikers outside the hotel and the many heartfelt tributes by NBA award-winners to Mailer'...
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Johnson, Weiner Win National Book Awards
Denis Johnson’s bulging and brilliant Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke, published by FSG, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction at this year’s gala awards ceremony at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The nonfiction award went to Tim Weiner’s damning examination of American intelligence policy, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA from Doubleday.
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Betting on Books: Spotlight on Young People's Literature
Turning to the Young People’s Literature category of the National Book Awards, the finalists include three hard-hitting coming-of-age novels, two of them set within minority communities; one fantasy; and an illustrated book with a strong fantasy component.
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PEN USA Honors the First Amendment
Somali journalist Sahal Abdulle was presented with the Pen Freedom to Write Award at this year's annual awards ceremony held in Los Angeles.
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Betting on Books: Spotlight on Nonfiction
Taking a look at Nonfiction for the next installment of our pre-National Book Awards coverage, of the five NBA finalists this year, PW gave stars to three and named two to our 2007 Best Books list.
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Betting on Books: Spotlight on Poetry
Continuing our pre-National Book Awards coverage—and if you still haven’t voted in our poll, there’s no time like the present—we’re looking at the poetry finalists today. For the most part, the contenders are big names in the poetry world.
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Hay Scoops the Giller
Elizabeth Hay, who has a history with the Giller Prize, being nominated in 2000 and serving as a juror in 2005, won the C$40,000 award this year for her novel, Late Nights on Air, published in Canadaby McClelland & Steward. It will be published in the U.S. next April by Counterpoint.
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Betting on Books: Spotlight on Fiction
As part of our coverage leading up to the National Book Awards on November 14th--and don't forget to cast your vote in our poll--PW's reviews editors are taking a close look at the finalists in their respective catagories. Today it's fiction. The five finalists in fiction this year range from big names who've written career masterpieces to budding debut authors.
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Betting on Books: The NBAs
Denis Johnson is the favorite to win in fiction, while Christopher Hitchens and Edwidge Danticat are the top contenders for the nonfiction honor. At least that's what readers responding to PW's online poll say. There's still plenty of time to weigh in with your predictions about who will go home with a National Book Award next week.
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