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Shortlist Announced for 'FT,' McKinsey & Co Business Book of the Year Award
The winner will be announced at a dinner ceremony on November 11 in London, and will receive £30,000, with each shortlisted author receiving £10,000.
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2014 National Book Award Fiction Longlist Announced
The list of 10 finalists includes a previous National Book Award winner, two finalists for the award, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and two first time authors.
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Canada's Big Fiction Prize Grows
The founder of Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize announced yesterday that the prize purse will double, to C$140,000.
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National Book Award 2014 Nonfiction Finalists
Among this year's nominees are the first cartoonist to be considered for the prize (Roz Chast), a Pulitzer Prize winner (Edward O. Wilson), and a Tony winner (John Lahr).
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National Book Award 2014 Poetry Finalists
Among the poets on this year’s longlist are two former National Book Award Finalists and two former Poets Laureate of the United States.
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2014 NBA Young People's Literature Longlist Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2014 National Book Award longlist for Young People’s Literature.
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National Poetry Series Ups Cash Prize
Beginning this year, the five winners of the National Poetry Series' Open Competition will receive a $10,000 prize, up from $1,000.
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Ursula K. Le Guin to Receive NBF Lifetime Achievement Award
Neil Gaiman will present the medal to Le Guin at the 65th National Book Awards ceremony on November 19, in New York City.
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Louise Erdrich Wins 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award
Established in memory of Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, the $25,000 award is presented biannually to a living American author whose "scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature."
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Ferris, Fowler Make 2014 Booker Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize has been announced, and includes, for the first time in the prize's history, writers from outside the U.K and Commonwealth.
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2014 Rona Jaffe Winners Announced
Each winner will receive $30,000, which will be presented on September 18 at a reception in New York City.
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Judith Appelbaum to Get BISG Lifetime Award
Judith Appelbaum will be presented with the 2014 Lifetime Service Award at the BISG annual meeting on September 19, 2014 in New York City.
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Robert Hass Wins $100K Poetry Prize
The Academy of American Poets has awarded Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate Robert Hass the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award.
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Letterman Named 2014 Thurber Finalist
His satirical picture book, 'This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me),' written with Bruce McCall, is one of three titles up for the prize.
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NEA Names Translation Fellows
The 20 translators of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry from 12 different languages will together receive $300,000 in recommended grants.
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Bidart, Wolcott Among 2014 PEN Winners
The winners will be celebrated at a ceremony on September 29 at the New School in New York City.
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2014 Booker Longlist Revealed
Americans Joshua Ferris and Richard Powers, among others, made the cut, but Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Goldfinch" was notably absent from the first global longlist.
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Amazon Names Winner in 2014 Novel Contest
Amazon has chosen D.M. Pulley of Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the grand prize winner in its seventh annual Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
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Five Finalists Named in Amazon Novel Contest
The judges have winnowed down 10,000 entries to the top five. Consumers vote on the grand prize winner from today through July 18.
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