The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (Knopf) won the National Book Award for fiction at the 73rd annual awards ceremony—resuming an in-person event for the first time since 2019. Gunty, who didn’t prepare a speech, thanked her fellow nominees for “putting their work into the world.” She referenced something Sharon Olds had said at an event […]
Awards
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, Forthcoming from Norton, Wins Booker Prize
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. A creator of rock songs, screenplays and travel stories as well, Karunatilaka’s debut novel, Chinaman (published in the US by Graywolf as The Legend of Pradeep Mathew), won the Commonwealth Prize in 2011. Norton bought North American […]
Ada Limón Named Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress named Ada Limón the 24th poet laureate of the US. Limón, 46, has published six books, including, most recently The Hurting Kind (2022, Milkweed Editions) and The Carrying (2018, Milkweed Editions), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She succeeds Joy Harjo and takes up the position it […]
MWA Launches Lillian Jackson Braun Award
The Mystery Writers of America announced a new award, the $2,000 Lilian Jackson Braun Award “for the best full-length, contemporary cozy mystery published by an MWA-approved publisher.” The prize is named after the author of “The Cat Who…” series, who died in 2011. The winner will be announced at the Edgar Awards banquet in New […]
Costa Book Awards End After 50 Years
The Costa Book Awards, founded in 1971 and sponsored by Costa Coffee since 2005, have been cancelled. Costa wrote in the announcement, “After 50 years of celebrating some of the most enjoyable books written by hugely talented authors from across the UK and Ireland, Costa Coffee has taken the difficult decision to end the Costa […]
NYRB Goes Back to Print on Pulitzer Winner
New York Review Books told PL that they had more than 2,000 copies of Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus in stock when it was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Now there are orders for nearly 10,000 copies, they say, “a huge portion of which are coming from independent bookstores.” They expect […]