Jan 31, 2012
The Center for Fiction, founded in 1820 as the Mercantile Library, and the American Booksellers Association announced a new partnership to promote the seven shortlisted novels in the Center's annual Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The ABA will select 450 bookstores around the U.S. focused on literary fiction to receive tabletop displays, posters and shelf talkers for the seven novels. In addition, fifty booksellers across the country will be asked to be first-tier readers for the prize.
The Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize is awarded to the best debut novel of the year. The author of the winning book receives $10,000 and the other shortlisted authors receive $1,000 each. Past winners include The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (The Dial Press), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead/Penguin), and Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (Viking).
Publishing news from across the Web
James Salter has won the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award, an honor in its 25th year that highlights excellence in short fiction.
Orange, the British telecommunications company that has sponsored one of England's main fiction prizes for women, the Orange fiction prize, has pulled its financial support of the award.
NY Times asks 8 experts to pick a winner.
More than a third of the winners of Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, are now out of print.
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Serpent's Shadow | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
