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NBF Seeks Nominations for Innovation in Reading Prize

| 12/18/2013 @ 05:30PM

The award, which recognizes "exceptional initiatives and programs that have created and sustained a lifelong love of reading," comes with a $2,500 prize.
Books for a Better Life Awards Finalists Revealed

| 12/12/2013 @ 10:00AM

Michael Moss, Naoki Higashida, and Temple Grandin are among the finalists for the 18th annual Books for a Better Life Award.
A Book Prize That Bridges the Atlantic

By Liz Thomson | 12/10/2013 @ 09:00AM

Writer and critic Olivia Laing and author and journalist Erica Wagner, winners of the 2014 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award, have each been awarded £20,000 and will start their residency at the Eccles Centre on January 2, 2014.
The Spokenword Audio Grammy Nominees

| 12/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

The five Grammy nominations in the spokenword audio category announced last week were: America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert; Carrie And Me by Carol Burnett; Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris; Still Foolin' 'Em by Billy Crystal; and The Storm King by Pete Seeger.
Canadian Nonfiction Prize Rebrands, Adds New Prize

By Staff | 12/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

The C$25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is rebranding as the RBC Taylor Prize and adding a new C$10,000 prize for emerging writers.
Goodreads Reveals Favorite Books of 2013

| 12/03/2013 @ 10:00AM

Goodreads has unveiled its version of a 'best books' list, and this year's favorite among members was Khaled Hosseini's "And the Mountains Echoed."
Oren Teicher and the ABA Board: 'PW' Person of the Year

| 11/26/2013 @ 12:00AM

For their role in leading the resurgence of independent bookselling, ABA CEO Oren Teicher and the ABA board have been chosen as PW’s Person of the Year.
Heading Back to Press on NBA Winners

| 11/22/2013 @ 10:00AM

The winners of the National Book Awards on Wednesday are scoring increased print runs with their respective publishers.
The 2013 National Book Awards: The Best of the Year

By Clare Swanson | 11/22/2013 @ 12:00AM

Novelist and musician James McBride appeared genuinely stupefied as he reached to accept the National Book Award for Fiction from Charles McGrath, former editor of the New York Times Book Review, at the awards ceremony on November 20. After the shortlist reveal about a month before the awards, McBride was considered an underdog, pitted against better-known writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Rachel Kushner, and Thomas Pynchon.
McAdam, Moore Awarded Writers’ Trust Prizes

By Leigh Anne Williams | 11/21/2013 @ 03:30PM

Author Colin McAdam was among the winners of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s annual literary awards, announced on Wednesday, in Toronto. The prize money attached to the awards collectively amounts to C$114,000.
NBA Young People's Literature Medalist Cynthia Kadohata: On a Streak of 'Luck'

By Diane Roback | 11/21/2013 @ 03:00PM

Luck can be found in the title of Cynthia Kadohata's latest novel, The Thing About Luck, which has just won the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
NBA Young People's Literature Finalists: A Photo-Essay

| 11/21/2013 @ 03:00PM

On Wednesday evening, November 20, five children's book authors, dressed in their finery, headed to Cipriani Wall Street for the 64th National Book Awards.
2013 National Book Awards Go to McBride, Packer, Szybist, Kadohata

By Clare Swanson | 11/20/2013 @ 09:55PM

The winners included Cynthia Kadohata for The Thing About Luck (Young People’s Literature), Mary Szybist for Incarnadine (Poetry), George Packer for The Unwinding (Nonfiction), and James McBride for The Good Lord Bird (Fiction).
Read Russia Extends Deadline for First Translation Prize

| 11/20/2013 @ 11:50AM

The Read Russia Prize is devoted to newly published Russian works in English translation.
'Everything Store' Named Business Book of the Year

| 11/19/2013 @ 12:00AM

The Everything Store, Brad Stone's look at Amazon and Jeff Bezos, was won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2013.
HC Canada Awards New Lit Prize

By Leigh Anne Williams | 11/14/2013 @ 10:00AM

Karim Alrawi wins the first HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction as part of the 50th anniversary of the UBC creative writing program.
Dowlatabadi Wins Jan Michalski Lit Prize

By Liz Thomson | 11/13/2013 @ 04:00PM

In the breathtaking surroundings of the Maison de l'Ecriture in Montricher, Switzerland, the fourth Jan Michalski Literary Prize was awarded to Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi for his novel The Colonel.
Ulfers Prize Goes to Bershtel

| 11/13/2013 @ 09:00AM

The German Book Office has announced the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers prize winner as Sara Bershtel, publisher of Metropolitan Books.
Friedman Wins Sami Rohr Prize

| 11/08/2013 @ 09:30AM

The Jewish Book Council named this year's winner for the literary award with one of the largest literary purses.
Coady Wins Canada’s Giller Prize for Fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams | 11/06/2013 @ 12:00AM

Short stories are hot in Canada this fall. Not long after Alice Munro won the Nobel, Lynn Coady has won the C$50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for 2013 for her short story collection, Hellgoing.

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