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PW Best Books 2011
We all love numbers, rankings, and lists; herald the best of anything, and we're seduced. After Bo Derek walked down the beach in her blonde cornrows, it was all about being a "10." At PW, we get to pick our "10," the books published this year that stayed with us, that we talked up, handed around, and of course argued about.
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Publishing Innovation Awards Deadline Extended
The deadline for the Publishing Innovation Awards has been extended until November 15.
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Richler Biography Wins New Canadian Prize
Charles Foran is the first author to win Canada’s newest and largest prize for nonfiction. His biography of one of Canada’s most famous writers, Mordecai Richler, won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
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Does the National Book Award Impact Foreign Sales?
The Booker Prize moves sales, especially for the winner. But can the same be said for the NBA? And what of foreign sales for the American nominees? This year, with the NBA longlist unveiled during the Frankfurt Book Fair, some thought there would be an immediate impact on foreign sales. They are still waiting.
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An NBA Fiction Judge Responds to Laura Miller
I read Laura Miller’s recent lambasting of our choices with a great deal of joy. Joy mostly because I love a good fight, and because one of the things missing from contemporary literature is a willingness to talk a little smack in defense of oneself and one’s ideals.
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Knopf Back to Press on Barnes's Booker Winner
With the news last night that the 2011 Man Booker Prize has gone to The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, the U.S. publisher of the title, Knopf, has gone back to press for an additional 40,000 copies, bringing total copies in print to 76,000.
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'Shine' Withdrawn as NBA Young People’s Literature Nominee
It turns out there will be only five nominations in the Young People Literature category of the National Book Awards. After receiving a request from the National Book Foundation that she withdraw her book from nomination, Lauren Myracle consented, a move that dropped Shine from the list. Last week, Chime by Franny Billingsley was added as a sixth nominee to the category, and Harold Augenbraum, NBF executive director, confirmed Monday that NBF staff had originally misheard Shine by Lauren Myracle for Chime when the list of nominees was read by the judges over the phone.
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21 Finalists for 2011 National Book Awards
The announcement of the nominees for the 2011 National Book Awards had an extra dose of drama this year as the National Book Foundation added a sixth selection to the Young People’s Literature category after the original broadcast over Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program Think Out Loud had only five nominees. Read our reviews of the nominated books.
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NBA Finalists Announced for Young People's Literature
The finalists for the 2011 National Book Award in Young People's Literature were announced on Wednesday. Originally five nominees were announced by former NBA Medalist Virginia Euwer Wolff; a sixth title was added a few hours later, after National Book Foundation executive director Harold Augebraum admitted there had been a “miscommunication.”
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National Book Awards Nominate 21 Finalists for 2011
The announcement of the nominees for the 2011 National Book Awards had an extra dose of drama this year as the National Book Foundation added a sixth selection to the Young People’s Literature category after the original broadcast over Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program Think Out Loud had only five nominees.
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Sixth Nominee Added to Young People's Literature Category
Citing “miscommunication” between the National Book Award judges and staff, six authors have been nominated in the 2011 Young People’s Literature category of the National Book Awards.
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2011 National Book Award Finalists Announced
The twenty-one finalists were announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Ecco Reissues Nobel Winner Tranströmer
Ecco will reissue two volumes of Nobel Prize winner Tomas Tranströmer's poetry: For the Living and the Dead: A Memoir and Poems, and Selected Poems, edited by Robert Hass. Both will be reissued in paperback next week, with e-books to follow.
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Mailer Prizes Go to Elie Wiesel, Keith Richards
Elie Wiesel, Keith Richards, Arundhati Roy and Gay Talese have all been honored by the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony.
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Nobel Prize Goes to Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature.
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5 Under 35 Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2011 5 Under 35: Shani Boianjiu, Danielle Evans, Mary Beth Keane, Melinda Moustakis, John Corey Whaley.
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Shortlist For Giller Revealed
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s richest prize for fiction, was announced Tuesday morning in Toronto.
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Rakoff Wins Thurber Prize for Humor
David Rakoff won the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book, Half Empty.
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Portland Author Finds Literary Love on the International Prize Circuit
Anyone who's spent time in the rights center at an international book fair might not recognize the romanticism of what's happening. Yes, people are importing and exporting literature, but, by the looks of it, you would think they're selling widgets. The set-up at Frankfurt, where the rights center is a windowless room lit by bad fluorescents and filled with rows of identical desks, speaks to the work happening.
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Lifetime Achievement National Book Awards Go to Ashbery and Kaplan
Poet John Ashbery will receive the 2011 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 62nd National Book Awards Ceremony and Mitchell Kaplan, bookseller and co-founder of the Miami International Book Fair, will receive the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
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