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Willen Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt senior editor Drenka Willen was in London to accept the sixth annual lifetime achievement award for international publishing.
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The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama
Adding a Pulitzer to her National Book Award, Annette Gordon-Reed has been awarded the prize for her monumental historical work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Norton). The book also won the 2009 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Howe Wins Lilly Poetry Prize
Novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet Fanny Howe has been awarded one of the nation’s largest literary prizes, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Life Achievement.
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Big Night for National Book Critics Circle
At last Thursday's National Book Critics Circle Awards dinner, Roberto Bolaño and Dexter Filkins were the winners in the fiction and nonfiction categories at a well-attended ceremony at the New School in New York City. The status of book reviewing was the theme for the evening, and in his acceptance speech after receiving the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Ron Charles,...
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Filkins, Bolaño Among 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
At a well-attended ceremony at the New School in New York City, the National Book Critics Circle gave out the its awards for publishing year 2008.
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Finalists Announced for $100,000 Jewish Literature Prize
The five fiction finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is: Elisa Albert for TheBook of Dahlia (Free Press); Sana Krasikov for One More Year (Spiegel & Grau); Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson (Soho Press); Dalia Sofer for The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco); and Anya Ulinich for Petropolis (Viking Penguin).
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Robinson, Bolaño Among 2008 NBCC Award Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2008 awards at a well-attended event at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City Saturday night.
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NBA Finalists Take Teens Behind Their Books
For the 11th year running, the National Book Foundation held a National Book Awards Teen Press Conference, which allows the five nominees in the Young People’s Literature category to read for and field questions from their books’ audience—teenagers.
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Blundell Wins NBA in Young People’s Literature
The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature was given Wednesday night to Judy Blundell, for her novel What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic Press), a noirish coming-of-age mystery set just after World War II.
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Peter Matthiessen, Annette Gordon Reed Among National Book Award Winners
The 2008 National Book Awards ceremony was held Wednesday night at Cipriani on Wall Street in downtown New York City. Cipriani was a new location for the awards. Host Eric Bogosian opened the ceremony by noting that Barack Obama’s win in the Presidential election is good news for many, including those attending the awards ceremony because he “is a reader and a writer.” Obama’s election was, in fact, a recurring theme among the evening speakers.
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Amber Qureshi
Like most high-powered literary editors at major trade publishers, Amber Qureshi, a senior editor at Free Press, earned an undergraduate degree in advanced mathematics, specifically a branch called Algebraic Topology. Of course, she followed that up with the obligatory graduate work in Econometrics—in Japan.
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Celebrating Children's Book Week
As Children’s Book Council board member Simon Boughton greeted the crowd at Tuesday night’s gala event at the New York Times, “Happy Children’s Book Week!” And what a week it has shaped up to be. Children’s Book Week, traditionally celebrated in November, was moved to May for the first time this year, with many events throughout the week and a renewed energy for promoting the joys of reading to the nation’s young readers.
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NBCC Suggests Spring and Summer "Good Reads"
The third installment of the National Book Critics Circle's "Good Reads" list includes new books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Honor Moore and Marie Howe.
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Schubiger and Innocenti Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
A swedish author and an Italian illustrator were named the winners of this year's Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
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Young Lions Finalists Announced
The five authors up for this year's Young Lion's award--given annually by the New York Public Library to promising young writers--have been announced. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Library on April 28.
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Quill Awards Program Suspended
PW’s parent company, Reed Business Information, has announced plans to suspend support of the Quill Awards program.
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$100,000 Prize to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (HarperCollins/Ecco). The prize—administered by the Jewish Book Council--carries a $100,000 cash award.
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$100,000 Prize to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (HarperCollins/Ecco). The prize—administered by the Jewish Book Council--carries a $100,000 cash award.
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First-Ever Essence Literary Awards Celebrate African-American Writers
The inaugural Essence Literary Awards took place last Thursday. Among the winners were The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (Unbridled Books) and Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf). Terry McMillan received a lifetime achievement award and Bishop T.D. Jakes received a “President’s Award.”
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Coetzee, Sacks and Others Among NBCC's "Good Reads"
Following up and renaming this past fall's “Best Recommended List,” yesterday the NBCC launched a list of book recommendations now called “NBCC’s Good Reads.”
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