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Patti Smith, Peter Carey Among National Book Award Finalists
Today, writer Pat Conroy announced the Finalists for the 2010 National Book Award from the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia. The finalists include rock legend and poet Patti Smith, whose memoir Just Kids (Ecco) is a nonfiction finalist, and Man Booker finalist Peter Carey, for his novel Parrot and Olivier in America (Knopf).
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Jacobson Wins Booker
Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize with The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) and joked that he was "speechless - so I'll give the speech I prepared in 1983," the year of his debut with Coming from Behind. Jacobson was long-listed for the prize in 2002 and 2006 but has never previously been shortlisted. Bloomsbury US has just released the title.
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Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel; Picador Reprints 10 Paperbacks
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature today. Vargas Llosa is known for his political works that focus largely on Latin American power and corruption. Macmillan division Picador publishes most of Vargas Llosa's books in the U.S. and is reprinting 10 of his paperbacks in light of the win.
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Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for Canada's most prestigious fiction prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was announced yesterday in Toronto. This year's list stood out from past years' due to a predominance of books from small to medium-sized publishers.
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2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award Winners Announced
A woman raised on a yacht in the South Pacific, a teacher of "narrative medicine," a poet inspired by ancient nautical technologies, a former defender of murderers, a resident of a Georgia small town that was once home to the largest asylum in the world, and a Virgin Islands native are all recipients of the Rona Jaffe Foundation's 2010 Writers Awards. The writers will each receive $25,000 and be honored at a ceremony on September 23 in New York City.
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Galaxy Press Presents 26th Annual Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards
The 26th annual L. Ron Hubbard achievement awards for the winners of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest were presented on Saturday, August 28, in Los Angeles in a gala celebration at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Twelve winners were selected in the writing and illustrating categories as judged by such science fiction luminaries as Larry Niven, Kevin J. Anderson, K.D.Wentworth, Jerry Pournelle, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Dave Wolverton.
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Blankfein Recuses Himself as Judge of Biz Book of the Year
What do you do when you're the subject of books you're judging for literary merit? That's the unusual spot Goldman Sachs find itself in this year with the Business Book of the Year honor, an annual award that it gives out with the Financial Times. The long list of nominees, just announced, features a number of titles about the recent financial crisis, which Goldman was deeply embroiled in. Consequently Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman, is recusing himself as a judge.
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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
Awards.
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