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Natasha Trethewey Named Poet Laureate
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.
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2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Announced
The 24th annual Benjamin Franklin Awards were announced June 4, honoring excellence in publishing and presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
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Oprah's Book Club Selects 'Wild'
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.
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2012 Orange Prize Goes to 'The Song of Achilles'
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.”
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The Pulitzer Effect: How Much Did 2012’s Winners Jump?
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.
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2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award Goes to Hailey Leithauser
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.
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Karen Russell Wins NYPL's Young Lions Award
At a ceremony Monday night, Karen Russell won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia! (Knopf).
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IBPA Names Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists
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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Kinney, Selznick Win Top Prizes at Children's Choice Awards
The fifth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were awarded Monday evening at a charity gala in New York City, kicking off the 93rd annual Children’s Book Week. Jarrett J. Krosoczka hosted the event, at which Jeff Kinney was named Author of the Year, and Brian Selznick named Illustrator of the Year.
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Mobile Library, 15-Year-Old Win National Book Foundation Awards
The board of the National Book Foundation has awarded its fourth annual Innovations in Reading Prizes to five individuals and organizations for "demonstrating passion, creativity, dedication, and leadership in the service of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading."
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'The View from Lazy Point' Wins 2012 Orion Book Award
Author and biologist Carl Safina has won the 2012 Orion Book Award for The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Holt), in recognition of the book’s success in addressing the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought-provoking, and engaging manner.
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Zarakolu To Receive AAP Freedom to Publish Award
Ragip Zarakolu, a voice for free expression in Turkey, has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award.
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NBA Entry Process Now Open to Publishers
The National Book Foundation has issued entry forms and guidelines for the 2012 National Book Awards. The organization has also released the names of the 20 judges who will be choosing the award winners of the four prizes: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.
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The Best of Northwest Literature: The 25th Annual Oregon Book Awards
Winners included Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers and Carl Adamshick's Curses and Wishes.
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2012 PubWest Book Design Awards Announced
Jennifer New's Dan Eldon: Safari is a Way of Life, published by Chronicle Books, has won the Judges Choice award as part of the 2012 PubWest Book Design Awards.
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Pulitzer Winners Go Back to Press
History winner Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable will see the most significant new print run, with Viking publishing 9,000 copies with a sticker adhered to the book and an additional 10,000 with the seal imprinted on the cover.
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Just How Much Does a Pulitzer Prize Help a Book's Sales?
PW took a look at the last five winners of the fiction prize—A Visit from the Goon Squad, Tinkers, Olive Kitteridge, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Road—and the effects the win had on sales.
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Tracking Amazon: Pulitzer Fiction Finalists Jump
They may be a day later than the books that actually won Pulitzers, but the three finalists for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction have jumped considerably.
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Tracking Amazon: Pulitzer Winners See Huge Spikes
Poetry winner Tracy K. Smith saw her book Life on Mars jump to #101 from #35,886, making it the second highest sales increase of the past 24 hours. The title is now backordered on Amazon's site.
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2012 Pulitzer Prize: No Fiction Award, Jurors 'Shocked'
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced April 16, and the big surprise wasn't who won, but who didn't: for the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded.
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