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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An order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been rescinded for now, but the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies are preparing for potential cuts to their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.
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Erin Entrada Kelly's Second Newbery Win: 'A Lot of Screaming and a Lot of Joy'
Erin Entrada Kelly was already cozy in bed, in her jammies, on Sunday night, all set to do some writing, when the phone rang. "I thought, 'There’s no way this is going to be 'the call,' but I answered it, and sure enough, it was the committee”; she had won the Newbery Medal for her middle grade novel 'The First State of Being.'
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Percival Everett, Kevin Fedarko Win 2025 Carnegie Medals
Percival Everett's 'James' took home this year’s fiction medal, and 'A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon' by Kevin Fedarko received this year’s nonfiction award.
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The 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the 42 finalists and four special award winners for this year’s awards cycle, its 50th, honoring books published in 2024. Winners will be named on March 20, in a ceremony to be held at the New School in New York City.
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74th National Jewish Book Awards Announced
'10/7: 100 Human Stories,' Lee Yaron's account of the October 7 attack on Israeli civilians, was named the Jewish Book Council's Book of the Year.
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The National Book Critics Circle Inaugurates Award Longlists
On a rolling basis this week and for the first time in its 50-year history, the NBCC is announcing longlists for its annual awards. Finalists will be announced on January 23, with winners to follow at a ceremony on March 20 in New York City.
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John Ingram Receives 2024 Frederic G. Melcher Lifetime Achievement Award
Ingram has undergone tremendous change since it was founded in 1970 as a book wholesaler, becoming a thriving $2 billion operation due to its willingness to embrace new opportunities—and to its chairman, John Ingram, for leading it through such a remarkable transformation.
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PW’s 2024 Person of the Year: Liz Pelletier
In just over a decade, Entangled Publishing has gone from scrappy digital-first startup to publishing powerhouse after betting big on the burgeoning categories of romantasy and new adult—due in no small part to the vision and ingenuity of its founder.
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Palestinian Publisher Wins Top IPA Award
The International Publishers Association awarded this year’s Prix Voltaire to Gaza-based publisher Samir Mansour, with a special award given to the late Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina, who was killed last year in a Russian missile attack.
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Anagrama’s Herralde Prize Mints Literary Superstars
The annual award, given by Barcelona-based publisher Editorial Anagrama, was shared by two authors this year—Xita Rubert (l.) and Cynthia Rimsky—for only the second time in its history.
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De Léon, Everett, Safadi, Tuffaha, Yáng Win 2024 National Book Awards
The 75th National Book Awards, once again dominated by outspoken writers passionate about their politics, saw a much-predicted win in the fiction category and unsparing criticism of the war in Gaza from the podium.
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Looking Back at 75 Years of the National Book Awards
This year, the National Book Foundation celebrated the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards. To mark the milestone, we’ve compiled archival images from the awards’ history and asked former and current leaders of the foundation to recount highlights from their tenures.
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Anne Michaels Wins 2024 Giller Prize as Protesters Picket Outside the Venue
A crowd protesting the Giller Foundation’s financial connections with the Israel Defense Forces picketed the gala on November 18, where Michaels was named this year's winner for her novel 'Held.'
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NBF’s 2024 Literarian Award to Be Awarded as Planned
Following the publication of two articles critical of several titles in the Black Classic Press backlist, the National Book Foundation confirmed that it will move forward with honoring its founder, W. Paul Coates, with its lifetime achievement award at this year’s National Book Awards ceremony.
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Librarians’ Choice: 2025 Carnegie Medal Longlist Announced
A total of 46 books—23 fiction titles and 23 nonfiction titles—have made the longlist for the American Library Association’s 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, the association’s adult book award. The six-title shortlist will be announced on November 12.
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Han Kang Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The South Korean author, best known for her novel 'The Vegetarian,' has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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Scholastic UK Holds First Graphic Novel Awards
Alice Oseman's 'Heartstopper Volume 5' was among the winners at the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Awards, held at London's Cartoon Museum on October 7. The prizes were voted on by students at schools across the U.K. and Ireland.
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