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Gardner, Pinfold Win 2013 Carnegie, Greenaway Medals
Sally Gardner has won the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon, and Levi Pinfold has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Black Dog.
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PubWest Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Counterpoint’s Jack Shoemaker
PubWest has awarded its 2013 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award for long-lasting contributions to the Western book community to Jack Shoemaker, editorial director and vice president of Counterpoint Press.
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Rysa Walker Wins Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Rysa Walker from Cary, N.C., has won Amazon's Breakthrough Novel contest with her YA title, Timebound.
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Bram Stoker Winners Announced
The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards June 15 in New Orleans. The winners included The Drowning Girls by Caitlin R. Kiernan and Life Rage by L.L. Soares.
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Fady Joudah and David McFadden Win 2013 Griffin Poetry Prizes
Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah and Canadian David McFadden each took home C$65,000 from the Griffin Poetry Prize awarded in Toronto last night.
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New Prize in Military History Created
The Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History has been created by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
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2013 Translation Prize Winners Announced
The fiction winner was Alyson Waters for her translation of Prehistoric Times by Eric Chevillard (Archipelago Books).
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2013 Book Design Awards Winners Announced
PubWest has announced the winners of the 2013 Book Design Awards, which recognize book design excellence across 24 categories.
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Graywolf Author Wins IMPAC Award
Graywolf author Kevin Barry, who lives in Ireland, received the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, City of Bohane. This is the second time a Graywolf author has received the prestigious award.
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A. M. Homes Wins Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
The Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 was awarded to A. M. Homes for May We Be Forgiven. Homes was presented with the £30,000 prize on June 5 at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
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Lydia Davis Wins the Man Booker International Prize 2013
Lydia Davis has been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The prize, worth £60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage.
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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalists Announced
The five winners across five categories have been announced in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, a contest that received over 10,000 entries from around the world.
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International Business Group Names Raccah Entrepreneurial Champion
The Committee of 200, an international organization dedicated to nurturing and advancing female entrepreneurs and corporate leaders, named Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah as their 2013 Entrepreneurial Champion.
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Caro Wins Plutarch Biography Award
Robert Caro’s The Passage of Power (Knopf) won the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2012 as judged by biographers.
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IBPA Names 2013 Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists in the 25th annual Benjamin Franklin Awards.
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News Briefs: Week of May 20, 2013
March Bookstore Sales Up and more
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E-Books and Banned Books: Innovations in Reading Winners
Now in its fifth year, the Innovations in Reading Prize this year recognized a book bank, a library that puts free books by the side of the road, a portable reading room, a banned book promotion project, and a a nonprofit that gets e-books to the developing world.
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Children's Choice Awards Announced
The winners of the sixth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were announced May 13 at a ceremony in New York City hosted by the Children’s Book Council.
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Drenka Willen Wins First Ottaway Award for Promotion of International Literature
Words without Borders, a nonprofit and online magazine, has announced that Drenka Willen is the first recipient of the James H. Ottaway Jr. Award for the Promotion of International Literature (aka the Ottaway).
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