The Booker Prize, usually conferred in mid-October right around the Frankfurt Book Fair, is moving to late November. The six-title shortlist will be announced on September 21, and the winner will be named on November 26. That means the Booker will follow the National Book Awards, which will be awarded on November 15.
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UK Gets New Coffee-Sponsored Book Awards
Following the demise of the Costa Book Awards in 2022, UK chain Caffe Nero is launching the Nero Book Awards, in four categories: debut fiction, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s fiction. The first shortlist will be announced in November, and the winners will be named in January 2024, honoring writing from the UK and Ireland. Former director of the Costa Awards Amanda Johnson will run the new program, which is being administered by the Booksellers Association, working in partnership with Brunel University London and Right To Dream.
Diaz, Kingsolver Win Fiction Pulitzers
Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists were announced on Wednesday afternoon, with the committee awarding an unusual two prizes in fiction: Fiction Winners Trust, by Hernan Diaz Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver Finalist The Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini Vara Nonfiction Winner His Name Is George Floyd, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Finalists Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa Kingdom of Characters, by Jing Tsu Sounds Wild and Broken, by David George Haskell History Winner Freedom’s Dominion, by Jefferson Cowie Finalists Watergate, Garrett M. Graff Seeing Red, Michael John Witgen Biography Winner G-Man, by Beverly Gage Finalists Mr. B, Jennifer Homans […]
Women’s Prize Launches Nonfiction Award
The Women’s Prize Trust, which awards the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, announced the launch of a new nonfiction award in 2024. They write, “The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, which will sit alongside its sister prize the Women’s Prize for Fiction, will amplify female voices, whilst celebrating books that inform, entertain, challenge, disrupt, and offer solace and connection.” The Charlotte Aitken Trust has signed on to award the winners £30,000 and a statuette (called “the Charlotte”) for the first three years, but organizers are currently seeking additional investment. The prize is a response to a recent study that found that […]
Luqman-Dawson Wins Newbery, Salati Wins Caldecott
The American Library Association presented the 2023 Youth Media Awards at the LibLearnX conference in New Orleans.
Booker Prize Announces Competition to Name Its Trophy
The Booker Prize has launched a competition to name its trophy, which seems to depict a woman holding a bowl over her head. Entrants are “invited to draw inspiration from the history of the Booker Prize and to put forward ideas for the coveted trophy’s official title.” A panel of judges will select and announce finalists on February 9, and then the public will be invited to vote on a winner. The nameless statuette was designed by children’s book author and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski in 1969, and served as the trophy for some time but fell out of use almost […]