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2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winners Announced
The winners of the fifth annual Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes have been announced, with five publications, including 'Electric Literature' and 'Zyzzyva,' taking home a combined total of $144,000 in funding.
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Ada Limón Named U.S. Poet Laureate
The author of 'The Hurting Kind' and 'The Carrying,' among others, has been named the 24th poet laureate of the United States, succeeding Joy Harjo.
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Ruth Ozeki Wins U.K. Women's Prize for Fiction
Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel 'The Book of Form and Emptiness' (Penguin), which comes with a £30,000 ($36,500) cash award.
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Abrupt End to U.K.' s Costa Awards
In a surprise announcement June 10, Costa Coffee announced it was immediately ending its support for the second most prestigious book award—after the Booker—in the U.K. and Ireland.
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'The Netanyahus,' 'frank: sonnets' Among 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Novelist Joshua Cohen, artist Winfred Rembert, and poet Diane Seuss were among the winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, announced on May 9.
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Brandon Taylor's 'Filthy Animals' Wins 2022 Story Prize
Taylor's second book, published by Riverhead, won the $20,000 prize honoring an outstanding story collection published in 2021.
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2022 Whiting Award Winners Announced
The 10 winners of the 37th Whiting Awards, each of which comes with a $50,000 prize, were announced on April 6 in a ceremony at the New-York Historical Society.
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Winners of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize Announced
The eight winners of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. Among the best known is Margo Jefferson from the U.S. Each winner receives $165,000.
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Sweden's Lindström Wins 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Swedish picture book author and illustrator Eva Lindström has won this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which carries with it a $525,000 USD purse.
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Bologna 2022: Publisher of the Year Winners
The Bologna Children's Book Fair announced the winners of its 10th annual BOP – Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year.
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Bologna 2022: Marie-Aude Murail and Suzy Lee Win 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
This year’s recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award are France’s Marie-Aude Murail (l.), for writing; and Suzy Lee, from the Republic of Korea, for illustration.
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NBCC Awards 2022: Moving Forward With An Eye to the Past
The NBCC virtual awards ceremony Thursday evening was an upliffting affair, with a diverse group of award recipients underscoring the importance of books, both to audiences today and to future generations.
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SCBWI Announces Golden Kite Awards; Jason Reynolds Delivers a Paean to Mailboxes
Rather than reveal this year's Golden Kite Award winners during its winter conference, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators presented the awards in a stand-alone program on March 15; the event featured remarks from National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds.
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Percival Everett and Tina Fey Are 2023 PEN Lit Award Winners
'Dr. No' by Percival Everett (Graywolf) received the evening's top prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Tina Fey won the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award at the March 2 event in midtown Manhattan.
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Hernández, Choi, Renkl, Peters, and Miles Win 2022 PEN Lit Awards
'The Kissing Bug' by Daisy Hernández (Tin House) received the evening's top prize, the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, at the February 28 event in midtown Manhattan.
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French Dominates 2022 BolognaRagazzi Book Awards
The winners of the 2022 BolognaRagazzi Book Awards, given in six categories, have been announced.
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Submissions Open for 2022 U.S. Selfies
Submissions are now open for the 2022 U.S. Selfies awards for self-published books. The 2022 awards submission period will be open until the night of March 31.
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Six Writers Each Receive $50,000 from United States Artists Org
United States Artists, a Chicago-based arts funding organization, announced that six writers are included in this year's slate of 63 USA Fellows, each of whom is receiving an unrestricted $50,000 award.
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PEN America Announces Finalists for 2022 Literary Awards
65 authors and translators are nominated across 11 awards. Winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony on February 28.