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PEN America Literary Awards Return After a Tumultuous Year
While it was largely business as usual following the cancelation of last year’s ceremony, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award was not conferred for a second year in a row due to nominee withdrawals. The $75,000 purse was donated to the nonprofits Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Palestine Legal.
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Percival Everett, Tessa Hulls Among 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Everett’s novel ‘James’ and Hulls’s graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’ were among the seven books to receive this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced May 5.
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Emerging Authors and Genre Legends Honored at 79th Edgar Awards
At the 79th Edgar Awards, held May 1 in Manhattan, the Mystery Writers of America honored the work of Laura Lippman and John Sandford and named Charlotte Vassell’s The In Crowd as the year’s best novel.
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Jiaming Tang, Blas Falconer Among 2025 Publishing Triangle Award Winners
The winners of the 37th annual Triangle Awards, which honor the year’s best LGBTQ literature published in 2024, were honored at a celebration held at the New School in New York City on April 17.
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2025 Whiting Awards Recognize 10 Emerging Writers
The awards—which since 1985 have bestowed more than $10 million on early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama—were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9.
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2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners Hail from Seven Countries
Haruki Murakami and Hoda Barakat are among the winners of the 19th Sheikh Zayed Book Awards, which are awarded in eight categories and honor excellence in Arab-language publishing.
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2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
This year’s six-book International Booker Prize shortlist comprises five novels and one short story collection translated from five languages. The winner will be revealed at a ceremony in London on May 20.
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Federal Judge Won’t Block NEA from Imposing Speech Restraints on Grantees
The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island has denied a motion to preliminarily enjoin the National Endowment for the Arts from prohibiting grant recipients from using grant funding to promote “gender ideology.”
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AAP Announces 2025 Hawkins, PROSE Award Winners
Ieva Jusionyte’s Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border, published by University of California Press, took home the top prize at the Association of American Publishers’ 2025 PROSE Awards.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Marion Brunet Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
French author Marion Brunet is the winner of the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize. The award was announced live from Stockholm on April 1 and broadcast simultaneously at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
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Sigrid Nunez, Anne Enright Among 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
The eight winners span the categories of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, and each will receive a purse of $175,000. Since their establishment in 2013, the Windham-Campbell Prizes have awarded more than $19 million in prize money.
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Abdurraqib, Carson, Matar Among 2025 NBCC Award Winners
Hanif Abdurraqib, Anne Carson, and Hisham Matar are among the winners of the 50th annual National Book Critics Circle Awards, presented at a ceremony in Manhattan on March 20.
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‘My Name Is Barbra’ Wins Audiobook of the Year at 2025 Audie Awards
At the 30th annual Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association and held in New York City on March 4, winners across 28 categories were announced. Barbra Streisand’s memoir took home the night's biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year.
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AAP Announces 2025 Prose Award Category Winners
The Association of American Publishers has announced the 37 category winners for the 49th annual PROSE Awards honoring professional and scholarly works published in 2024.
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2025 International Booker Prize Longlist Announced
This year's 13-book International Booker Prize longlist comprises 11 novels and two short story collections translated from 10 languages. The six-book shortlist will be revealed on April 8, and the winner will be named on May 20.
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Spotify Launches Mental Health Fiction Awards with the Black List, Jed Foundation
Spotify has partnered with the Black List and the Jed Foundation on the Spotify x JED Impact Award, a program that will award five $10,000 grants to authors of unpublished manuscripts featuring mental health narratives.
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Future of Libraries, Arts Agencies Unclear Amid Federal Funding Freeze
An order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been rescinded for now, but the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies are preparing for potential cuts to their funding.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2025 Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Winners
The annual Youth Media Awards were announced on January 27 during the American Library Association’s final LibLearnX conference. See our interviews with the winners of the three top prizes.
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Samuel Teer and Mar Julia's Printz Win: 'Hooting and Hollering'
When Samuel Teer and Mar Julia, author and illustrator of 'Brownstone', received word on Sunday that their graphic novel had won the 2025 Michael L. Printz Award, neither was anticipating the call.
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Rebecca Lee Kunz’s Caldecott Win: 'Beyond Grateful'
Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz's three daughters—ages 11, 14, and 17—were making art on the family’s kitchen table when she received the call that her debut picture book, 'Chooch Helped,' had won the Caldecott Medal. “At first, I wasn’t sure what was going on—it was surreal,” she told PW.