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Finalists Named for 2020 PW Bookstore of the Year
This year's shortlist of five bookstores includes a number of stores with multiple locations and with years of bookselling experience, from both coasts and as far south as Texas.
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Heller, Robotham, and Kim Among 2020 Edgar Nominees
Timed to the 211th birthday of namesake Edgar Allan Poe, the Mystery Writers of America has announced its nominees for the 2020 Edgar Awards.
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NBCC Awards Finalists Announced
The National Book Critics Circle has announced 30 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the annual National Book Critic Circle Awards, which will be presented March 12 in New York.
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The Selfies Book Awards Kick Off in the U.S.
Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch, the daily online news service for the U.K., have launched the Selfies book awards for self-published authors in the United States.
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2019 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature in Photos
Our photographer caught up with the five finalists for the Young People’s Literature prize, along with their editors, and also captured the award announcement at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan.
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Sandler, Krasznahorkai, Sze, Broom, Choi Win 2019 National Book Awards
At the 70th National Book Awards, LeVar Burton presided over a smoothly run evening where Jeff Sharlet was named the winner in the adult nonfiction category for 'The Yellow House' and Susan Choi took home the adult fiction award for 'Trust Exercise.'
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Ian Williams Wins 2019 Giller Prize
Ian Williams has won the C$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious and richest award for fiction, for his debut novel, 'Reproduction,' published by Random House Canada.
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Thompson-Spires Wins Hurston/Wright 2019 Award for Fiction
Authors Nafissa Thompson-Spires (fiction), Terrance Hayes (poetry), and Imani Perry (nonfiction) were the winners of the Hurston/Wright Foundation's annual Legacy Awards, presented October 18 in Washington, D.C.
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Atwood, Evaristo Jointly Win the 2019 Booker Prize
Both 'The Testaments' by Margaret Atwood, and 'Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernardine Evaristo, were judged to be worthy of the 2019 Booker Prize. The two authors will split the £50,000 prize money.
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Tokarczuk, Handke Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prizes
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Austrian author Peter Handke has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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