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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Tomas Transtromer Wins Nobel Literature Prize
Despite a flurry of bets that installed Bob Dylan as the improbable front-runner, in the end, the Nobel Prize in Literature stayed close to home, going to Swedish poet and perennial favorite Tomas Transtromer, the eighth European winner over the past 10 years and the first Swedish writer to win the prize since 1974. In a statement the Nobel Prize committee said Transtromer, 80, won “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”. Transtromer’s Swedish publisher Bonniers had just released a collection of his work from 1954 to 2004 to celebrate his 80th birthday. “We […]
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At Scholastic, Dani Nadel has been hired as chief digital marketing officer for Scholastic book clubs and e-commerce, reporting to Judy Newman. She was most recently president at digital agency Publicis Modem since 2008. In addition, Tom Burke has been promoted to chief e-commerce officer, book clubs and e-commerce. Christopher Davis will join Open Road as evp and chief operating officer, overseeing operations and financial matters, reporting to Jane Friedman, starting October 17. He was previously the svp of business operations for AOL/The Huffington Post Media Group. At Scribner, Katie Monaghan has been promoted to deputy director of publicity. Liz Hartman has […]
Awards: 5 Under 35, and the Nobel’s Scouts
The National Book Foundation’s new 5 Under 35 Honorees are: Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth, 2013) Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead, 2010) Mary Beth Keane, The Walking People (Mariner, 2009) Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories (The University of Georgia Press, 2011) John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back (Atheneum, 2011) Finally, don’t hold your breath for a recognizable Nobel Prize for Literature winner on Thursday, even though bettors have placed so much money on Bob Dylan in the last 24 hours that they cut his odds of winning […]