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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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Bezmozgis, Ohlin Make Giller Prize Shortlist
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which awards C$100,000 for the best Canadian work of fiction, includes four authors previously in contention. Among them are David Bezmozgis and Alix Ohlin, but no Margaret Atwood.
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Vuong, Barry Awarded MacArthur Grants
Novelist and poet Ocean Vuong and comics artist and educator Lynda Barry are among the 26 people chosen to receive the annual fellowships—popularly known as “genius grants”—awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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PW Star Watch 2019 Superstar: Jennifer Baker
Jennifer Baker, production editor at Teachers College Press in New York, was named PW Star Watch Superstar at a party at Marquee New York in Manhattan on September 18.
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2019 NBA Longlists Announced
The longlists for the five categories have been named, and the winner in each category will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on November 20.
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NBF Honors ABA CEO with Literarian Award
Outgoing American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher, who has run the ABA for a decade, will receive this year's National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
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Star Watch 2019 Finalists Named
PW Star Watch has selected five finalists from the 50 honorees selected for its fifth annual award. One “Superstar” will be named at the PW Star Watch celebratory event on Wednesday, September 18.
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Translator Grossman to Be Honored by Words Without Borders
Translator Edith Grossman will receive the 2019 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature from translation advocacy organization Words Without Borders.
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