The winner of this year’s prize is Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” He is published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Picador, which published his novel The Bad Girl in hardcover in 2006 and in paperback in 2008, and Harvard University Press, which released the essay collection Wellsprings in 2008. Picador Publisher Frances Coady said in a statement that as of this morning, all 10 of the author’s books they publish are being reprinted: “we already have in place major bookseller […]
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Europa Editions has launched Tonga Books, a new imprint focusing on dark, literary titles that will be acquired and curated by Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold. Its first title, scheduled for a Fall 2011 release, is You Deserve Nothing by Iowa Writers Workshop student Alexander Miksik. Seamus Heaney has won the Forward Prize for his poetry collection Human Chain.Guardian Nicole Rudick has been named managing editor of The Paris Review. Previously she was managing editor for Bookforum. Alyson Sinclair has joined City Lights Books as publicity and marketing associate. Previously she worked for FSG. Crown has announced a November 16 […]
Awards and Announcements: More Nobel Speculation; 5 Under 35; Giller Prize Shortlist; And More
With two more days until the Nobel Prize for Literature’s announcement, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o has emerged as the front-runner, with Ladbrokes noting odds have been slashed from 75-1 to 11/4. Cormac McCarthy is the 2nd favorite at 3-1.Guardian The National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” list for this year includes: Sarah Braunstein, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton & Co., 2011)Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio, 2010) Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Random House, 2011) Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010) Paul Yoon, Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009) […]
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Margaret Raymo has elected to take the new position of senior executive editor, at Houghton Mifflin Children’s, a “purely editorial role” that will let her focus on discovering and working with authors and illustrators. Raymo says “I’m very happy to be able to put all my energy back into creating books.” As a result, Mary Wilcox has been promoted to vp, editorial director for Houghton Mifflin Children’s, while continuing as editorial director of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s. Abrams has hired Lindy Humphreys for the new position of director, digital assets and publishing technology, to “oversee our digital initiatives and help […]
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Author, agent, film and television producer and publishing executive Stanley L. Colbert died on September 21 in Toronto, Canada. He was Sterling Lord’s original partner in the Lord & Colbert Agency (with Lord handling magazine sales and Colbert selling to book publishers). As an agent he found a home for Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD after Robert Giroux couldn’t sort out the author’s second manuscript and sent him to Colbert. But Kerouac drove a falling out with Lord and Colbert became an editor at Henry Holt. He moved to LA in 1956 to head the literary department at the William […]
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Managing director of De Fontein/Tirion in Holland Geneviève Waldmann will also runs VBK’s Kosmos as of October 1, though both houses “will maintain their separate identities.” Later this year De Fontein/Tirion will relocate to Utrecht to join with Kosmos physically. Senior publicity manager at William Morrow Jennifer Slattery has left her position to travel to Australia for the next 6 months. Judith Merkle Riley, author of six historical novels (Vision of Light, In Pursuit of the Green Lion, The Water Devil, The Oracle Glass, The Serpent Garden and The Master of All Desires) and a professor of political science at […]