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Ann Patchett Wins WNBA Award

| 08/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Women's National Book Association has announced Ann Patchett as the winner of the 2012-2013 WNBA Award.
Random House Teacher Awards Launches

| 08/09/2012 @ 10:00AM

Random House has announced the Random House Teacher Awards, which awards winning teachers with grants.
Digital-First Books Win Romance Awards

By Rose Fox | 07/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Romance Writers of America bestowed two of the coveted RITA Awards for romance writing on digital-first publications this weekend at the group's annual conference, which took place in Anaheim, Calif.
Man Booker 2012 Longlist Announced

| 07/25/2012 @ 12:00AM

This year's longlist of 12 titles has been announced and includes Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies and Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Baker & Taylor Gives Two Srnecz Scholarships

| 07/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

The winners are Caitlin Brianna Parker, who will be entering Appalachian State University this fall, and Ashley Lauren Anderson, who will be entering Brigham Young University. Each receive the $3,000 scholarship, which was started to support the higher education of Baker & Taylor employees' children.
S&S’s Szczerban Wins 2012 Ashmead Award

| 07/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

Michael Szczerban, associate editor at Simon & Schuster, has won the 2012 Ashmead Award.
Discover Mystery Award Goes to Ronald Sharp

| 07/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ronald Sharp has won the first annual Discover Mystery Award and a contract with Poisoned Pen Press for his book No Regrets, No Remorse. Dana Stabenow, an Edgar Award-winning novelist, was the guest judge for the award. For more information on Poisoned Pen Press and the Discover Mystery Award, click here.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Goes to Arnold Rampersad

| 07/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

Arnold Rampersad, the award-winning biographer of The Life of Langston Hughes, literary critic, and professor emeritus at Stanford University, is the winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
ALA Hands Out First Adult Prizes to Massie, Enright

by Andrew Albanese | 06/25/2012 @ 12:00AM

At its annual convention being held in Anaheim, the American Library Association awarded its first-ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction to Irish novelist Anne Enright for her book The Forgotten Waltz (W.W. Norton). Robert K. Massie, meanwhile, took home top honors for nonfiction for Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House).
National Book Award Finalists Get Exhibition

| 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has launched an online exhibition at www.nationalbook.org of the 373 books that were National Book Award Fiction Finalists from 1950 to 2011, some well-known, others nearly forgotten.
Max Hastings Receives 2012 Pritzker Military Award

| 06/19/2012 @ 09:00AM

British historian Sir Max Hastings has been named the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
David Harsent and Ken Babstock Win Griffin Poetry Prize

Staff | 06/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

David Harsent’s Night and Ken Babstock’s Methodist Hatchet win the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest.
Natasha Trethewey Named Poet Laureate

| 06/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th Poet Laureate, and will open the Library of Congress's annual literary season in the fall with a reading on September 13.
2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Announced

| 06/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

The 24th annual Benjamin Franklin Awards were announced June 4, honoring excellence in publishing and presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
Oprah's Book Club Selects 'Wild'

| 06/04/2012 @ 12:00AM

Officially kicking off "Oprah Book Club 2.0" on June 4, Oprah Winfrey has selected Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Random House) as her first pick.
2012 Orange Prize Goes to 'The Song of Achilles'

By Liz Thomson | 05/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury) has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. Joanna Trollope, chair of judges for the prize, said: "This is a more than worthy winner – original, passionate, inventive and uplifting. Homer would be proud of her.”
The Pulitzer Effect: How Much Did 2012’s Winners Jump?

By Gabe Habash | 05/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

Five weeks after the 2012 Pulitzer winners were announced, we looked at Nielsen BookScan sales numbers to see just how much the prize helped--and the results were mixed.
2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award Goes to Hailey Leithauser

| 05/17/2012 @ 12:00AM

Hailey Leithauser has won the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award, presented by the Poetry Foundation. The award is designed to recognize an American poet of at least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection of poetry.
Karen Russell Wins NYPL's Young Lions Award

| 05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

At a ceremony Monday night, Karen Russell won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia! (Knopf).
IBPA Names Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists

| 05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 24th Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards, honoring excellence in publishing. The three finalists in each of the 54 categories were chosen from close to 1,300 entries, and one winner per category will be announced at the Benjamin Franklin Awards ceremony on Monday evening, June 4th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York city on the eve of BookExpo America 2012.

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