The Orange Prize shortlist was announced this morning in London, featuring: Wolf Hall, by Hillary MantelThe Lacuna, by Barbara KingsolverA Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie MooreBlack Water Rising, by Attica Locke The Very Thought of You, Rosie Alison The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey Locke and Alison’s books are both debuts; Alison and Roffey’s books have not been published in the US yet. The winner will be named June 9.
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People, Etc.
Ayesha Pande has officially announced the change of what’s left of Collins Literary to Ayesha Pande Literary, now with a new mailing address and web site as well. Westwood Creative Artists agent John Pearce is relocating to Victoria, BBC in May 2010, where he will establish a new presence for the agency. Pearce also become a shareholder in the company. Curtis Brown svp Emilie Jacobson, 85, died April 14 “after a short illness.” A brief notice says “a fall memorial service is to be announced.” Emily St. John Mandel remembers Jacobson at The Millions. Kendra Harpster is joining the Random […]
It's Not PC, But Making Tinkers Was My Idea
A lot of people have claims to helping “make” Paul Harding’s TINKERS work in the marketplace. The Boston Globe has a nice piece on the topic, though in mangling the chronology of things they confuse the record as much as clarify. And we’re still looking for the independent booksellers who helped recognize Tinkers was special early on, along with Bellevue’s distributor Consortium, to spotlight their roles even further. So here’s a little bit of a timeline: * As we first read in the Wall Street Journal, it was Jonathan Rabinowitz at Turtle Point Press who passed the manuscript to Erika […]
Guggenheim Recognizes Harding, Too
Yesterday the Guggenheim named its 180 new fellowships, and Paul Harding makes their list as well. Some of the other authors receiving support also include Adam Begley, Tom Bissell, Ethan Canin, Anthony Doerr, Nell Freudenberger, Philip Gourevitch, Jonathan Harr, Molly Haskell, Colum McCann, Joseph O’Neil, Salvatore Scibona, and Monique Truong.Full fellows
More Awards: Commonwealth, Orange First Book
In yesterday’s other award news, Britain’s Rana Dasgupta won the overall Commonwealth Prize for his novel SOLO. The book was honored with the Guardian’s “Not the Booker” prize last year. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has rights to the book in the US, scheduled for publication next year.) Australia’s Glenda Guest won the first novel award for SIDDON ROCK. There’s no public indication of a US deal there yet. Further to yesterday’s IMPAC report, Ross Raisin’s God’s Own Country was published in the UK by Viking–and in the US it was issued as an original trade paperback by Harper Perennail as OUT […]
Bellevue Press Leads Pulitzers As Harding's "Tinkers" Takes Fiction Honors
The just-announced 2010 Pulitzers (with the official finalists listed underneath the winners: FictionTinkers, by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press) Love in Infant Monkeys, by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press)In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company) HistoryLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press) Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford University Press) BiographyThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred […]