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Han Kang Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The South Korean author, best known for her novel 'The Vegetarian,' has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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Scholastic UK Holds First Graphic Novel Awards
Alice Oseman's 'Heartstopper Volume 5' was among the winners at the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Awards, held at London's Cartoon Museum on October 7. The prizes were voted on by students at schools across the U.K. and Ireland.
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2024 National Book Award Finalists Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards. The winners in each of the five categories will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 20.
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Belarus's Januškevič Publishing House Receives 2024 AAP Freedom to Publish Award
The Association of American Publishers has awarded the Belarusian-language house, publishing in effective exile from Poland, with its annual honor recognizing "courage and fortitude" in defense of the freedom of expression.
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2024 Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
This year's six-book shortlist includes five women authors—the largest number of women in the prize's 55-year history—and two Americans: Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner. The winner will be announced on November 12.
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2024 National Book Award Longlists Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced its 2024 National Book Award longlists. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1.
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2024 NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature Announced
The National Book Foundation has revealed the 2024 National Book Award longlist for Young People's Literature. The five finalists will be named on October 1, and the winner will be announced during the 75th awards ceremony on November 20 in New York City.
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W. Paul Coates to Receive NBF's 2024 Literarian Award
The founder and publisher of Black Classics Press and BCP Digital Printing will be presented with the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at this year's National Book Awards ceremony.
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Inaugural American Manga Award Winners Announced
VIZ Media took home three of the night’s six awards, which were launched to honor outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics and held on the eve of this year’s Anime NYC convention in New York.
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In Glasgow, Worldcon Worked to Put Hugos Controversy Behind It
This year's World Science Fiction Convention, held in Scotland's largest city August 8–12, hoped to put a year and change of controversy in the rearview mirror. To publishers’ minds, those hopes were met.
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