Awards season starts to take shape with the release of the Booker Prize shortlist (with the winner to be named the week following the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16). Esi Edugyan from Canada’s Washington Black (Knopf) is the only title in contention for more than one major fiction award this year, having just made the Giller longlist. Knopf said they are going back to press for a third printing of the book. Neither of the two nominated American authors — Rachel Kushner‘s The Mars Room (Scribner) and Richard Powers‘ The Overstory (Norton) — are on the National Book Awards longlist. But Graywolf Press is the forthcoming US publisher […]
