The ABA announced the finalists for the Indies Choice Awards, with winners to be announced April 17. Among the adult candidates 5 of the 6 debut nominees and 3 of the fiction nominees were all featured pre-publication in Buzz Books last year. (Check out the excerpts in the current Spring/Summer edition to sample some of the potential breakout books of this year spring and summer.) The nominees are: Adult Fiction Gun Machine, by Warren Ellis (Mulholland Books) Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books) Snow Hunters, by Paul Yoon (Simon & Schuster) The Son, by Philipp Meyer (Ecco) […]
Awards
Awards Nominees: Stella, Arthur C Clarke, and LBF International
Australia’s Stella Prize announced their shortlist: Burial Rites, Hannah Kent Night Games, Anna Krien The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane Boy, Lost, Kristina Olsson The Swan Book, Alexis Wright The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Clare Wright Another shortlist comes from the UK’s Arthur C Clarke award for best science fiction novel: God’s War, Kameron Hurley Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie The Disestablishment of Paradise, Phillip Mann Nexus, Ramez Naam The Adjacent, Christopher Priest The Machine, James Smythe Longer still, the London Book Fair announced the shortlist for their new International Industry Excellence Awards, bestowing honors in no less than 16 categories. The full release is […]
Briefs: Trudeau Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison; Carnegie & Greenaway Awards Shortlists; and More
Allen Guelzo has won the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History for GETTYSBURG: The Last Invasion (Knopf). The $50,000 prize was announced Monday night at a ceremony held at the New-York Historical Society. The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal shortlists were announced this morning, with the winners to be named on June 23. Anne Fine, Rebecca Stead, and Susan Cooper landed on the Carnegie list, while Jon Klassen appears twice on the Greenaway shortlist for THIS IS NOT MY HAT and THE DARK (text by Lemony Snicket). Onetime bestselling weight-loss “guru” and infomercial staple Kevin Trudeau was sentenced to 10 […]
Awards: Self-Published Cookbook Takes Top Honors, and More
The self-published STONE EDGE FARM COOKBOOK, from the Sonoma, CA farm and vineyard of the same name, won the IACP‘s Cookbook of the Year award, along with honors as best first book. The illustrated $60 book appears to be available for sale only directly through the farm. The cookbook awards in approximately 20 categories included an award for best ecookbook, presented to THE JOURNEY, which is “the first edition in the Alta Editions Cooking Series.” With recipes from chefs Katy Sparks, Alex Raij, Maneet Chauhan, Rita Sodi and Kathleen Squires, the series is actually presented as a $1.99 a month subscription. […]
Fink, Adichie Top NBCC Winners
The 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winners were named at the New School in New York on Thursday night. The winners are: Fiction AMERICANAH, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf) Nonfiction FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL, Sheri Fink (Crown) Autobiography FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO, Amy Wilentz (Simon & Schuster) Biography JONATHAN SWIFT, Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press) Criticism DISTANT READING, Franco Moretti (Verso) Poetry METAPHYSICAL DOG, Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus)
Saunders Wins Inaugural Folio Prize; American Academy Winners; and More
George Saunders has won the first Folio Prize for TENTH OF DECEMBER, just a week after winning the Story Prize. (The collection also garnering a National Book Award nomination last fall.) Folio Prize chair Lavinia Greenlaw said in the announcement: “Saunders’s stories are both artful and profound. Darkly playful, they take us to the edge of some of the most difficult questions of our time and force us to consider what lies behind and beyond them. Unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate, he is a true original whose work is absolutely of the moment.” In other awards news, the American Academy of […]