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Kyung-sook Shin Becomes First Woman to Win Man Asian Prize

| 03/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

For her novel, Please Look After Mom, Kyung-sook Shin won the Man Asian Literary Prize, becoming the first woman to win the prize in its five year history.
Big Night for the Little Guys

By Gabe Habash | 03/09/2012 @ 07:00PM

It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction prize, thanked her publisher, Lookout Books (the press for the University of North Carolina Wilmington), for choosing her as their debut author. “Little presses and little magazines are dedicated to keeping literature alive, and they deserve thanks from every writer; tonight, particularly from me,” said Pearlman.
National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to Pearlman, Jasanoff, Gaddis

By Gabe Habash | 03/08/2012 @ 12:00AM

Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman and Liberty's Exiles were among the winners at the NBCC Awards.
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards 'Untouchable' and 'Kosher Chinese'

By Gabe Habash | 03/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award honored Untouchable by Scott O'Connor (fiction) and Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy (nonfiction) at a ceremony in New York on March 7.
Tale of Rescued Chimps Wins Canadian Non-fiction Prize

| 03/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Andrew Westoll's study of the lives of rescued chimps wins C$25,000 Canadian non-fiction prize.
2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Award Finalists Announced

| 03/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

The 2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Awards finalists have been announced by the American Booksellers Association.
Second Annual Are You a Librarian Superhero Contest Launched

| 02/28/2012 @ 12:00AM

Gale, a part of Cengage learning, has launched the second annual Are you a Librarian Superhero contest to recognize a librarian who is making a difference for their library and community.
Baldacci, Dawes, Muske-Dukes Win Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards

| 02/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Poets & Writers has announced that David Baldacci, Kwame Dawes, and Carol Muske-Dukes are the recipients of the 2012 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Kathryn Court is the winner of the editor's award.
Gal Beckerman Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize

| 02/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Jewish Book Council announced that Gal Beckerman was awarded the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his first book, When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone (HMH).
Grant for Midlist Children's Book Authors Established

| 02/14/2012 @ 10:00AM

Author Jane Yolen and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators have created a new grant to honor midlist authors.
B&N Names 'Discover Great New Writers' Finalists

| 02/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

Barnes & Noble has announced the six finalists for the 2011 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble.
ABA and the Center for Fiction Announce Flaherty-Dunnan Partnership

| 01/31/2012 @ 12:00AM

The ABA will select 450 bookstores around the U.S. focused on literary fiction to receive tabletop displays, posters and shelf talkers for the seven shortlisted novels.
Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Take Home Top Kids’ Prizes

| 01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM

Last Monday, the American Library Association announced its annual Youth Media Awards at its Midwinter conference, held this year in Dallas. The 2012 John Newbery Medal went to author Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt (FSG), a semiautobiographical story set in the town of Norvelt, Pa. The Randolph Caldecott Medal went to Chris Raschka for A Ball for Daisy (Random House/Schwartz & Wade), a wordless picture book about a dog and its beloved red ball. And the Michael L. Printz Award was given to first-time author John Corey Whaley for Where Things Come Back (S&S/Atheneum), about the disappearance of a teenager and the possible reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; Whaley also won the William C. Morris Debut Author Award.
Gantos, Raschka, Whaley: Where They Were When the Award Call Came

| 01/26/2012 @ 03:00PM

Three lucky authors got phone calls from the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz committees, letting each of them know they had won the top prize.
Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz

By Diane Roback | 01/23/2012 @ 11:00AM

Jack Gantos has won the 2012 Newbery Medal for Dead End in Norvelt, Chris Raschka has won the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy, and John Corey Whaley has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Where Things Come Back.
Eugenides and Hochschild Among 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 01/21/2012 @ 07:30PM

At a gala event at Artists Space in downtown New York, the NBCC announced its finalists for awards for 2011 books in six categories, along with winners of two honorary citations. Click to read our reviews of all of the finalist books.
2012 Edgar Award Nominees Announced

| 01/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction. The winners will be announced at a gala banquet on April 26 in New York.
2011 Story Prize Finalists: DeLillo, Millhauser, Pearlman

| 01/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

The finalists for this year's Story Prize are The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo (Scribner), We Others by Steven Millhauser (Knopf), and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books).

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