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International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the International Booker Prize, an award for the best translated work of fiction, includes two books each translated from French and Spanish, and one each from Russian and Danish. The winner will be announced June 2.
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L.A. Times Book Award Winners Announced
The 41st annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded in a livestreamed virtual ceremony last Friday. The awards are presented in 12 categories; 56 books were shortlisted overall.
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2021 Whiting Award Winners Announced
The 10 winners of the 36th Whiting Awards, each of which comes with a $50,000 prize, were announced on April 14 in a virtual ceremony.
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Gay, Wang, Ehrenreich, Hartman Win at 2021 PEN Lit Awards
Ross Gay's 'Be Holding: A Poem' was among the winners of the 18 literary prizes and $380,000 in prize money announced during the 2021 PEN Literary Awards.
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Deesha Philyaw Wins 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award
'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies' by Deesha Philyaw, which was published by West Virginia University Press, has won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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2021 International Booker Prize Longlist Announced
This year's longlist for the U.K.'s International Booker Prize, an award for the best work of translated fiction, includes books from 11 languages and 12 countries. The prize offers £50,000, split evenly between author and translator.
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NBCC Award Winners Announced in Emotional Ceremony
On March 25, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners in six categories for its annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year in a moving event.
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Finalists Named for Bookstore and Rep of the Year
The five finalists for 2021 Bookstore of the Year reflect the changes that have taken place in the ways that bookstores serve their communities and the increasing role of activism in bookselling today. The five finalists for Rep come from commission groups, Ingram, and the Big Five.
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2021 Audie Award Winners Announced
The Audio Publishers Association hosted the 26th annual Audie Awards virtually last night, making them open to the public for the first time. 'Piranesi,' by Susanna Clarke and narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, was named Audiobook of the Year.
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Rona Jaffe Awards Discontinued
The Rona Jaffe Foundation has discontinued its annual Writers' Award program, which awarded six women writers in the early stages of their work with $30,000 grants.
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