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
Awards
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 […]
Awards: Quirky Shortlist for IMPAC
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, nominated by public libraries worldwide, issued an unusual shortlist today: The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch) The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery In Zodiac Light, by Robert Edric (British) Settlement, by Christoph Hein (German)The Believers, by Zoe Heller (British)Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (Irish) God’s Own Country, by Ross Raisin (British) Home, by Marilynne Robinson (American) As far as we can tell, Bakker’s book was published in the US by non-profit Archipelago Books; Erdric, published in the UK by Doubleday and Black Swan, never had a US edition.
Verghese and Grann Top Indies Choice Awards
The American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards: FictionCutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf) NonfictionThe Lost City of Z, by David Grann (Doubleday) DebutThe Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam) Young AdultCatching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) Middle ReaderWhen You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books) Picture BookThe Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown) Full story
May Indie Next List
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John MandelThe Lonely Polygamist by Brady UdallThe Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline WinspearGirl In Translation by Jean KwokDiamond Ruby: A Novel by Joseph WallaceTomorrow River by Lesley KagenThe Invisible Bridge by Julie OrringerChef by Jaspreet SinghMy Name is Mary Sutter by Robin OliveiraThe Ark by Boyd MorrisonThe Map of True Places by Brunonia BarryBeatrice and Virgil by Yann MartelLean on Pete: A Novel by Willy VlautinThe Other Family by Joanna TrollopeThe Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’FarrellWanna Get Lucky? by Deborah CoontsThe Red Thread by Ann HoodThe Hypnotist (The Reincarnationist, […]