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Cormac McCarthy Wins James Tait Black Award
Cormac McCarthy has won the 2006 James Tait Black Award for fiction for The Road.
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McCarthy, Lee Among Quills Winners
Corman McCarthy's The Road and an audio edition of To Kill a Mockingbird were among the winners in the third annual Quills Award. All 19 prize winners will receive their awards October 22 where Stephen Colbert will be among those presenting the awards. NBC will air the ceremony on October 27.
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2007 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
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Awards Honor Tomorrow’s Sci-Fi Stars
Sci-Fi author/editor Charles N. Brown won a Lifetime Achievement Award and 22 winners of the International Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests were honored on August 24th at the 23rd L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards held at the Athenaeum Club on the CalTech campus in Pasadena.
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NBCC Launches Author-Critic Pairings on Blog
NBCC has added a new feature to its blog, one which has a critic look at an author's work.
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Awards Are Winning
There is no shortage of book awards presented each year—the next in line are The Quills Awards (of which PW is a sponsoring partner). The Quill is different than other awards in that the public is invited to cast a vote (see sidebar on p. 26). Do awards make a difference? We've asked nine recent winners of awards—from the NBA to the NBCC to the Orange Prize to Newberys and Caldecott...
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Authors Shine at LA Times Book Prizes
Opening a ceremony during which the LA Times awarded prizes to, among others, Michael Connelly and Lawrence Wright,, LA Times editor James O'Shea reaffirmed the paper's commitment to book coverage, and
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Dramatic Changes In Newspaper Book Review Sections Prompt NBCC Campaign To Save Book Reviews
Following last week's announcement that the Atlanta Journal Constitution was eliminating its book review editor position, and this week's news that the Chicago Tribune will move its book review section from Sunday to Saturday, National Book Critics Circle president John Freeman says it's time to take action.
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Albert Murray Awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal
Albert Murray, the 90-year-old novelist, cultural critic and poet, has been awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
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Five Young Fiction Writers Nominated for Young Lions Award
$10,000 and a place on a list that includes highly successful young writers like Jonathan Safran Foer and Colson Whitehead goes to the winner.
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Controversy Over Newbery Winner: A Followup
Our story last week about the controversy surrounding author Susan Patron's use of the word "scrotum" in her Newbery-winning novel The Higher Power of Lucky seems to have ignited a firestorm.
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Listservs Buzzing over Newbery Winner
What's in a word? Plenty of controversy, if it happens to be a word naming a part of the male anatomy, and if it appears in a Newbery Award-winning novel.
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PW's Best Books of the Year
"Outside of a dog," Groucho Marx famously said, "a book is man's best friend." So consider this our take on the best of the best friends.