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Pyr Announces Essay Contest Winners
Prometheus Books' science fiction and fantasy imprint, Pyr, has announced the winners of its Pyr and Dragons Adventure essay contest. Lisa Iriarte, a seventh-grade teacher from Celebration, Fla., won the grand prize for her essay on why sci-fi and fantasy are important to her.
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International Thriller Writers Announces Award Winners
The International Thriller Writers presented its fifth annual Thriller Awards at Manhattan's Grand Hyatt Hotel the evening of July 10. Twist Phelan won the Best Short Story category with "A Stab in the Heart" (Ellery Queen Magazine).
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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners Announced
Amazon and Penguin announced the winners of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award at a ceremony in Seattle Monday morning. This year, for the first time, two grand prizes were awarded: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel, with each winner receiving a $15,000 publishing contract from Penguin.
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Paris Literary Icon Launches Prize and Magazine
Shakespeare & Company Bookshop, the Paris literary icon originally founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, and opened by George Whitman in 1951, is launching a literary magazine and literary prize. Both ventures will be officially announced at the famed Left Bank bookstore's fourth biannual literary festival held the weekend of June 18-20.
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PEN and ESPN Partner on Sports Writing Award
PEN American Center has created a new award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, which will honor nonfiction books about sports. The award is the first partnership between PEN and ESPN.
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Colman Andrews Wins Big at James Beard Awards
The James Beard Foundation held its annual awards ceremony last week, and in the cookbooks category, Colman Andrews's gorgeous tome on Ireland's rustic cuisine, The Country Cooking of Ireland, took home the cookbook of the year and international cookbook awards, while Claudia Roden's Book of Middle Eastern Food, which Vintage published in paperback in 1974, was inducted into the Cookbook Hall of Fame. Ad Hoc at Home landed one prize, for general cooking; and another Artisan title, Seven Fires, won for best photography.
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National Book Foundation Announces Entry Guidelines and Judges for 2010 Awards
The National Book Foundation has made entry guidelines for the 2010 National Book Awards available, by request, to publishers. It has also announced the names of the 20 writers who will judge the awards.
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Christian Book Award Winners Announced
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association announced the winners of its 2010 Christian Book Awards on Monday. The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns (Thomas Nelson) took the prize for 2010 Christian book of the year, and Watch Over Me by Christa Parrish (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group) won for fiction.
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A Good Night for Minotaur at the Edgars
Minotaur, the mystery imprint of St. Martin's Press, won the two top categories at the Mystery Writers of America's 64th annual Edgar Awards dinner held last night at Manhattan's Grand Hyatt Hotel: Stephanie Pintoff for In the Shadow of Gotham (Best First Novel by an American Author) and John Hart for The Last Child (Best Novel). Another Minotaur author, S.J. Bolton, received the Mary Higgins Clark Award for Awakening, presented the night before at the editors and agents party.
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2010 Pulitzer Winners Announced; Literary Indie Takes Top Honor in Fiction
The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded with Paul Harding winning in the Fiction category for Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press), a debut novel set in New England about a dying clock repairman who revisits his life on his deathbed.
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David Almond, Jutta Bauer Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
The 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the most prestigious international award for children's books, has been given to British author David Almond and German illustrator Jutta Bauer. The award was announced Tuesday afternoon at the Bologna Book Fair.
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Mantel, Holmes, Biss Among 2009
National Book Critics Circle WinnersWolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's fictional recreation of the early
life of 16th-century English statesman Thomas Cromwell; Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes' vivid study of the beginnings of science
in the Romantic Age; and Notes from No Man's Land, Eula Biss's collection of critical essays on
American life, were among the winners at the 2009 National Book Critics Circle
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Mueenuddin Wins $20K Story Prize
Pakistani-American author Daniyal Mueenuddin has been awarded the $20,000 Story Prize for his collection of connected short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, published by W. W. Norton.
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NBCC Names Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its book awards on Saturday at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York. Making the shortlist for fiction were Wolf Hall (Holt) by Hilary Mantel (who won this year's Man Booker Award), as well as American Salvage, a collection of stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell published by Wayne State University Press, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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When the ALA Calls: Stead and Pinkney on Winning the Big Prize
When you win a Newbery or a Caldecott Medal, you find out in a phone call — usually very early in the morning—and then your life is instantly changed. Both Rebecca Stead and Jerry Pinkney got recently that phone call; we spoke with both of them to find out where they were when the phone rang, what their reactions were, and what came next.
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Who Will Win the Big Awards? Scanning the Blogs
Ah, January 2010. New year, new decade—and the last chance to lay odds on which books from 2009 will be slapped with the gold and silver seals that come with the annual awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, the Printz Award, and all the other prestigious prizes handed out by the ALA's ASLC and YALSA divisions next Monday. A tour of various book- and librarian-centric Web sites, blogs and listservs turns up countless confident souls eager to champion their favorite titles...
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NY Center for Independent Publishing Honors Epstein
The New York Center for Independent Publishing will honor Jason Epstein with its Poor Richard Award on January 21. Epstein, who created Anchor Books in 1952, helped establish the trade paperback format, cofounded the New York Review of Books, created the Library of America, and served as editorial director of Random House, most recently published Eating: A Memoir in October 2009.
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Random Pushes Up Paperback Release of NBA-Winning 'Great World'
Random House has pushed up the paperback publication of last week’s National Book Award winner for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. The trade paperback edition was originally slated for next spring but will now go on sale December 4 with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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The 2009 National Book Awards
The 2009 National Book Awards ceremony returned to Cipriani Wall Street in downtown Manhattan November 18 for the second year, and the place is starting to feel like home. While there was talk of e-books, war and recession, having the inimitable Gore Vidal on hand—he won a National Book Award for nonfiction in 1993—to receive this year's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Ameri...
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Hoose Wins NBA in Young People's Literature
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature was given Wednesday night to Phillip Hoose, for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (FSG/Kroupa), a true-life account of the 15-year-old African-American girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Hoose walked to the podium with Colvin, and in accepting his medal, called the honor "unreal." He began by thanking his "brilliant" editor, Melanie Kroupa...
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