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 York City each spring. Greg Herren, the executive vice-president of MWA, said, “Lilian Jackson Braun is a legend in the mystery community. Her incredibly generous bequest to MWA was a very pleasant surprise and will enable us to fund some exciting new projects and programs […]
Awards
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 Book Awards. This means that the 2021 Costa Book Awards held in February 2022 was our 50th and final awards.” They continue, “We are incredibly proud to have played a part in supporting some of the best-selling authors of the last 50 years as well as […]
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 those reprints to arrive in early June, and are placing additional orders this week.
NYPL Cullman Center Announces Fellows
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announced its fellows for 2022-2023. Fellows receive a stipend and have access to the library’s research collections and an office in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street in NYC. This year’s recipients include nonfiction writers Rozina Ali, Raghu Karnad, Patrick Phillips and Francesca Wade; fiction writers Claire Luchette, Daniel Saldaña París, Brandon Taylor and C Pam Zhang; and poet Colin Channer.
Martha Wells Declines Nebula Nomination
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced finalists for the 2022 Nebula Awards. The SFWA noted that Martha Wells “graciously” declined her novella nomination for Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot Diaries, Book 6. “Wells felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community.” In a blog post, Wells said that after multiple Nebula and Hugo nominations and wins for the Murderbot series, “someone else could use this nomination better than I could.” Wells discussed her decision with SFWA board president Jeffe Kennedy, […]
National Book Award Winners: Mott, Miles, Espada, and More
Jason Mott‘s Hell of a Book (Dutton) won the fiction prize at the 72nd Annual National Book Awards on Wednesday evening. Luis Alberto Urrea presented the award at the end of a virtual-only ceremony, which was broadcast in part from the Penguin Random House offices. Mott said, “I would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied, the ones so strange that they had no choice but to be misunderstood, by the world and by those around them.” Nell Painter announced the nonfiction winner: All That She Carried, by […]