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 […]
Awards
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 […]
Russian IBBY Award President Resigns Amid Criticism
Hans Christian Andersen Award jury president Anastasia Arkhipova has resigned from the 2024 award committee. Reuters reports that Arkhipova, a Russian illustrator, is on the board of the Moscow Branch of Artists Association of Russia (MOCX), which last year ran a contest for artists to create Russian war propaganda. After Arkhipova was elected to the award committee in September, several IBBY member countries protested and withdrew from participation in the award, which has been called the Nobel Prize of children’s literature, reports Danish broadcaster DR. The queen of Denmark, Queen Margrethe II, withdrew her patronage of the award, and the […]
Silvers-Dudley Prizes
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the winners of the $135,000 Silvers-Dudley Prizes. Literary Criticism Parul Sehgal Ryan Ruby Arts Writing T. J. Clark Tausif Noor Journalism Timothy Snyder Catilin Dickerson