Finalists Announced for $100,000 Jewish Literature Prize 01/29/2009
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). More
Random Pushes Up Paperback Release of NBA-Winning 'Great World' By Lynn Andriani - 11/23/2009
Random House has pushed up the paperback publication of last week’s National Book Award winner for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. The trade paperback edition was originally slated for next spring but will now go on sale December 4 with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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The 2009 National Book Awards by Calvin Reid - 11/23/2009
The 2009 National Book Awards ceremony returned to Cipriani Wall Street in downtown Manhattan November 18 for the second year, and the place is starting to feel like home. While there was talk of e-books, war and recession, having the inimitable Gore Vidal on hand—he won a National Book Award for nonfiction in 1993—to receive this year's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Ameri...
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Hoose Wins NBA in Young People's Literature By Diane Roback - 11/19/2009
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature was given Wednesday night to Phillip Hoose, for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (FSG/Kroupa), a true-life account of the 15-year-old African-American girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Hoose walked to the podium with Colvin, and in accepting his medal, called the honor "unreal." He began by thanking his "brilliant" editor, Melanie Kroupa...
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Colum McCann, Phillip Hoose Among National Book Award Winners By Calvin Reid - 11/18/2009
Novelist Colum McCann won the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin (Random House); Gore Vidal (awarded the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters) was rambling, witty and profound as he recounted his life; and master of ceremonies, humorist Andy Borowitz, sent everyone home at 10:45 p.m. with a crack about Sarah Palin’s new memoir, Going Rogue, being an early candidate for the 2010 NBA fiction prize.
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Five Authors (and a Surprise Guest) at the NBA Teen Press Conference By John A. Sellers - 11/19/2009
During his introductory speech at the 12th annual National Book Foundation's Teen Press Conference, held this past Tuesday, host Jon Scieszka noted that the "crazy collection of writers and illustrators" that make up this year's National Book Award finalists in the Young People's Literature category offered "absolutely something for everyone"; be it social activism, history, or "lots of kissing."
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Veteran Journalist Wins Canada’s Giller Prize By Leigh Anne Williams - 11/11/2009
This year’s winner of the richest prize for fiction in Canada, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is veteran journalist and author Linden MacIntyre for his second novel The Bishop’s Man published by Random House Canada.
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