It turns out that Wednesday’s announcement of the National Book Awards was not entirely error-free, as in the early afternoon a sixth nominee in the Young People’s Literature category – CHIME by Fanny Billingsley, published by Dial – was added to the list. “We made a mistake, there was a miscommunication,” executive director of the National Book Foundation Harold Augebraum told the LA Times. “We could have taken one of the books away to keep it five, but we decided that it was better to add a sixth one as an exception, because they’re all good books.” Updating news from […]
Awards
National Book Award Nominees; New Literature Prize Proposed In UK
The National Book Award nominees were announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud program. The winners will be named on November 16. Fiction Andrew Krivak, THE SOJOURN (Bellevue Literary Press) Tea Obreht, THE TIGER’S WIFE (Random House) Julie Otsuka, THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC (Knopf) Edith Pearlman, BINOCULAR VISION (Lookout Books) Jesmyn Ward, SALVAGE THE BONES (Bloomsbury) Non-Fiction Deborah Baker, THE CONVERT: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf) Mary Gabriel, LOVE AND CAPITAL: Karl & Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Little, Brown) Stephen Greenblatt, THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern (Norton) Manning Marable, MALCOLM […]
People, Etc.
Eileen Lawrence will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as executive director of marketing on October 19. Previously she was senior executive director of advertising, promotion and creative services at the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. At Headline, John Wordsworth has joined as editor, focusing on science fiction and fantasy titles. Previously he was an editor at John Blake Publishing. In addition, Ben Willis will join as publicity manager starting November 7. Previously he was a senior press officer at Transworld. Cover to Cover Booksellers founder Nicky Salan, 77, died yesterday at her home in San Francisco. She founded the […]
Nobel Peace Prize Trio Includes Two Authors
The Nobel Peace Prize is being shared by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karma. Gbowee’s book MIGHTY BE OUR POWERS: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, was published last month by Beast Books and attracted attention for an author tour that’s being underwritten by Len Riggio. Sirleaf’s book THIS CHILD WILL BE GREAT was published by Harper in 2009 and is available in trade paperback and ebook. In other awards news, The Crime Writers’ Association announced the winners of various Dagger Awards in a ceremony that will be televised on ITV3 on October 11: Gold Dagger For […]
DeLillo’s Stories Top November Indie Next List
Here are the ABA’s latest monthly picks: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, by Don DeLillo The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel (The Cousins’ War), by Philippa Gregory Zone One: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead Aloha From Hell: A Sandman Slim Novel, by Richard Kadrey The Marriage Plot: A Novel, by Jeffrey Eugenides The Boy in the Suitcase, by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout, by Jill Abramson Triangles: A Novel, by Ellen Hopkins And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields White Truffles in Winter: A Novel, by […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Editor-in-Chief of School Library Journal and publishing group editorial director for Library Journals LLC Brian Kenney is leaving to become director of the White Plains Public Library in New York. The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony will honor Elie Wiesel with the Norman Mailer Lifetime Achievement Prize. Their biography award is going to Keith Richards to be presented by President Bill Clinton, and their prize for distinguished writing is going to Arundhati Roy. Add to the list of works by Nobel winner Tomas Transtromer published in the US his The Sorrow Gondola, issued last year by Green Integer (which is distributed by Consortium). They are reprinting […]