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Submissions Open for 2022 U.S. Selfies

By PW Staff | 02/01/2022 @ 10:00AM

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.
Six Writers Each Receive $50,000 from United States Artists Org

By Claire Kirch | 01/26/2022 @ 09:00AM

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.
PEN America Announces Finalists for 2022 Literary Awards

by Sophia Stewart | 01/26/2022 @ 03:00AM

65 authors and translators are nominated across 11 awards. Winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony on February 28.
Abdurraqib, Lin Win ALA’s 2022 Carnegie Medals

by Andrew Albanese | 01/24/2022 @ 12:00AM

At a virtual event on January 23, Lin took home the fiction honor for 'The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu' and Hanif Abdurraqib won the nonfiction honor for 'A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance.'
NBCC Awards Finalists Announced

By Sophia Stewart | 01/20/2022 @ 09:01PM

On January 20, the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists in six categories for its annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year.
Lebanese Publisher Dar Al Jadeed Wins 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire

By John Maher | 11/23/2021 @ 09:00AM

Dar Al Jadeed Publishing House, the Lebanese publisher, has been awarded the 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire by the International Publishers Association’s Freedom to Publish Committee. Its cofounder, a prominent critic of Hezbollah, was murdered in February.
Dusapin, Espada, Lo, Miles, and Mott Win 2021 National Book Awards

By John Maher | 11/17/2021 @ 09:00PM

'Last Night at the Telegraph Club,' 'Winter in Sokcho,' 'Floaters: Poems,' 'All That She Carried,' and 'Hell of a Book' took home the prizes. Three of the five winners were published by imprints of Penguin Random House, with two from Dutton.
Guatemala's F&G Editores Wins AAP International Freedom to Publish Award

By John Maher | 11/17/2021 @ 09:00AM

Guatemala's F&G Editores publishing house has won the 2021 Association of American Publishers International Freedom to Publish | Jeri Laber Award. The publisher's founder, Raúl Figueroa Sarti, and his colleagues have been threatened with censure and worse by the Guatemalan government and others for nearly 20 years.
Wisconsin Booksellers Named PW Star Watch Superstars of 2021

By Ed Nawotka | 11/17/2021 @ 07:00AM

Gretchen Treu and Wes Lukes, co-owners of A Room of One’s Own in Madison, Wis., were named the 2021 Superstars at last night’s virtual celebration of PW Star Watch, a program that honors up-and-coming creatives in the book business.
Omar El Akkad Wins the C$100,000 Giller Prize

By Ed Nawotka | 11/09/2021 @ 08:30AM

Last night, Omar El Akkad was announced as the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 'What Strange Paradise.' The prize is Canada's top award for English-language fiction.
South African Damon Galgut Wins 2021 Booker Prize

By Ed Nawotka | 11/04/2021 @ 07:00AM

South African novelist Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Promise,' published by Europa Editions. The novel follows the lives of three white siblings brought together by a series of funerals that follow the trajectory of the history of post-apartheid South Africa.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

By John Maher | 10/07/2021 @ 07:00AM

The U.K.-based English-language Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” He is the fifth English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in the past decade.
2021 National Book Award Finalists Announced

By Sophia Stewart | 10/05/2021 @ 10:15AM

Hanif Abdurraqib, Anthony Doerr, Ge Fei, and Lauren Groff are among this year's National Book Award finalists. The winners will be announced live on November 17 at the 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony, which will be held exclusively online.
In-Person National Book Awards Called Off

By John Maher | 09/24/2021 @ 10:00AM

The National Book Foundation will not hold its planned limited in-person National Book Awards ceremony on November 17, opting once more for a virtual ceremony as new variants of the coronavirus continue to spread.
Joy Williams Awarded 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

by Sophia Stewart | 09/17/2021 @ 02:00PM

Williams accepted the prize at an award ceremony during the National Book Festival on September 17.
2021 NBA Longlists Announced

By Sophia Stewart | 09/17/2021 @ 10:15AM

The National Book Foundation has announced is announcing the 2021 National Book Award longlists. Five finalists in each of the five categories will be named on October 5, and the winner will be announced during the awards ceremony on November 17.
2021 Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

By Sophia Stewart | 09/14/2021 @ 11:00AM

The finalists for one of the most prestigious prizes for English-language literature include three American authors.
2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winners Announced

By John Maher | 09/09/2021 @ 09:00AM

The winners of the fourth annual Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes have been announced, with three print magazines and two digital publications, including 'Bellevue Literary Review' and 'Full Stop,' taking home a combined total of $144,000 in funding.
Nancy Pearl to Receive 2021 National Book Foundation Literarian Award

By John Maher | 09/08/2021 @ 09:00AM

Nancy Pearl has been named the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2021 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, which will be presented at the 72nd National Book Awards ceremony on November 17 by Ron Charles of the 'Washington Post.'

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