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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.

  • 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."

  • '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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Eugenides, 'Blood, Bones & Butter' Win Indies Choice Awards

    The Marriage Plot and Blood, Bones & Butter, along with The Tiger's Wife and Between Shades of Gray were the winners at the 2012 Indies Choice Awards. The E.B. White Read-Aloud awards went to, in a tie, Maile Meloy and Colin Meloy, authors of The Apothecary and Wildwood, respectively.

  • Call for Applicants for 2012 Ashmead Award

    Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Ashmead Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

  • McKinney, Byrd Among Stoker Award Winners

    At the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards banquet held Saturday, March 31, at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City, Joe McKinney’s Flesh Eaters (Pinnacle) won for superior achievement in a novel, while Allyson Byrd’s Isis Unbound (Dark Regions Press) won for superior achievement in a first novel.

  • Jerusalem Book Fair Fellowships Information

    The Jerusalem International Book Fair American advisory committee announced that the deadline for applications for its editor and agent fellowships for the 2013 Fair has been set for Monday, July 16, 2012.

  • 'The Black Banners' Wins Ridenhour Book Prize

    Ali H. Soufan's The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (W.W. Norton) has won the ninth annual Ridenhour Book Prize, which "honors acts of truth-telling and outstanding works of social significance in publishing."

  • Guus Kuijer Winner of 2012 Lindgren Award

    Dutch author Guus Kuijer is the 10th winner of the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon at the Bologna Book Fair, in a broadcast direct from Sweden that aired online and to a packed crowd at the Illustrator’s Café. Kuijer was selected from 184 candidates from 66 countries.

  • María Teresa Andruetto, Peter Sís Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards

    The International Board on Books for Young People announced the winners of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards from the Bologna Book Fair on Monday. María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina has won the 2012 Author Award, and Peter Sís from the Czech Republic has won the 2012 Illustrator Award.

  • Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Finalists Announced

    The ABA has named its finalists in the 2012 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, which honor, in the association’s words, “the types of books that indie booksellers champion best.”

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