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Betting on Books: The NBAs

| 10/31/2007 @ 05:03PM

Come on, admit it, just as seeing what everyone’s wearing is the best part about the Oscars, the best part about book prizes is speculating on who will win. We do it at PW all the time; now we’re asking you to get in on the game. Take our poll and weigh in on whom you expect to win the National Book Award in each of the categories this year.
Harper Lee Wins Presidential Medal of Freedom

By Kevin Howell | 10/30/2007 @ 01:08PM

Harper Lee is being awarded America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her outstanding contribution to literature. Her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and is ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the top selling novel of all time.
Pick the Winners

by Staff | 10/26/2007 @ 06:00AM

Come on, admit it, just as seeing what everyone's wearing is the best part about the Oscars, the best part about book prizes is speculating on who will win. We do it at PW all the time. Now we're asking you to get in on the game. Go to publishersweekly.com to weigh in on who you expect to win the National Book Award in each of the categories this year.
Quills 2007

by Staff | 10/26/2007 @ 06:00AM

The 3rd annual Quill Awards were handed out October 22 at a black-tie affair at Lincoln Center in New York. There were winners in 19 categories, and Romance winner Nora Roberts copped the Book of the Year Award. A special Platinum Quill was awarded posthumously to David Halberstam, and the late Robert Ludlum was honored for the successful rendering of his Bourne trilogy into film.
Nora Roberts Wins Quill Book of the Year Award

By Rachel Deahl | 10/23/2007 @ 10:25AM

After faux TV news anchorman and current presidential nominee Stephen Colbert kicked off the night by mocking, tongue-in-cheek, the book prizes—chiding the National Book Awards for its “unoriginal” name, he likened the Quills to “the Latin Grammies of literary prizes”—a parade of authors and celebrities hit the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center to dole out, and accept, awards.
Lessing Gets Bump After Nobel Nod

| 10/18/2007 @ 01:23PM

HarperPerennial, the paperback imprint which holds the copyright to recent Nobel winner Doris Lessing's backlist, has announced it is going back to press for 200,000 copies of its 22 books by the author.
‘Bourne’ Books Among Quill Special Winners

| 10/15/2007 @ 02:18PM

Three special awards to be given out during the Quills were announced today by Reed Business Information, PW’s parent company and Quills founder.
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize

By Karen Holt | 10/12/2007 @ 09:56AM

His publisher is calling the honor not only a well-deserved recognition for the man, but affirmation of the power of books.
Lessing´s Nobel Win Thrills Publisher

By Karen Holt | 10/11/2007 @ 11:17AM

As news spread through the Frankfurt Book Fair Thursday afternoon that HarperCollins author Doris Lessing had just won the Nobel Prize for literature, her publisher´s booth filled up with journalists brandishing cameras and notebooks and colleagues offering hugs and congratulations. For just a few minutes, the search for the next big thing became secondary to celebrating the the 87-year-old British writer´s decades of achievement.
Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

By Dermot McEvoy | 10/11/2007 @ 10:24AM

Swedish Academy cites "skepticism, fire and visionary power"
FSG Grabs 3 Fiction NBA Nominees

| 10/10/2007 @ 01:29PM

The 20 finalists for the 2007 National Book Awards--winners will be named at the NBA Benefit Dinner in Manhattan on November 14--were announced this morning in Philadelphia by author and social critic Camille Paglia at the Library Company in Philadelphia, the oldest public library in America. FSG garnered four nominees, including three in fiction.
Joe Keenan Wins Thurber Prize

By Dermot McEvoy | 10/03/2007 @ 11:37AM

Joe Keenan has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his novel My Lucky Star (Back Bay Books).
A Winning Week: PW Talks with Stuart Dybek

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/28/2007 @ 10:47AM

Short story writer and poet Stuart Dybek, winner of a MacArthur "Genius" grant and the Rae Award for the Short Story, has had a really big week. PW checked in with him to see how it's been.
“Genius” Dybek Also Wins Rae Short Story Award

| 09/26/2007 @ 01:18PM

Short story writer Stuart Dybek wins his second honor in two days.
Stuart Dybek Named MacArthur "Genius"

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/24/2007 @ 04:25PM

Fiction writer Stuart Dybek and poet, translator and publisher Peter Cole are among the 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur fellowships, an honor that carries a half million prize.
NBF Honors “5 Under 35”

| 09/24/2007 @ 01:56PM

A few young literary talents are getting their due from the National Book Foundation this fall. On November 10, the NBF will honor five authors under the age of 35 in a celebration dubbed “5 Under 35.”
McCarthy, Gore, Isaacson Win Quill Awards

by Staff | 09/14/2007 @ 06:00AM

Cormac McCarthy, Al Gore and Walter Isaacson are among the winners of the third annual Quill Book Awards. McCarthy wins in the general fiction category for The Road, while Gore will take home the prize in history/current events/politics for The Assault on Reason, and Isaacson wins in the biography category for Einstein.
Eggers Wins $250,000 Heinz Award

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/12/2007 @ 09:01AM

Writer, editor, publisher and founder of 826 Valencia writing laboratories has been named this year’s winner of the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities category.
NBCC Looks at Book Reviewing

| 09/11/2007 @ 01:09PM

To examine the changing face of book reviewing, the NBCC has established a weeklong symposium dedicated to the topic, “The Age of Infinite Margins: Book Critics Face the 21st Century.”
National Book Foundation to Honor Didion and Gross

By Lynn Andriani | 09/10/2007 @ 12:51PM

The National Book Foundation will commemorate the literary achievements of Joan Didion and Terry Gross at its November 14 awards ceremony in New York City.

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