Awards

Yves Saada is joining Disney Publishing in the new role of vp, digital media. He will be responsible for the general management and strategic oversight of digital media within Disney’s global book group, including management of the fall 2009 launch of Disney Digital Books.  Saada has held senior positions at companies including Pokemon USA, Mattel, Microsoft, and BrainPop. English PEN announced the PEN/Pinter Prize, an annual award named for the late playwright Harold Pinter to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an “unflinching, […]

Hoping to emulate the Booker of Booker’s campaign, the National Books Foundation is initiating a program to select the best novel from the past 59 years. There have been 77 National Book Award-winning works of fiction from 68 authors during that period (the contest incorporates long-retired fiction sub-categories such as best science fiction, best western, and best paperback fiction). The books will be featured, one a day, on a dedicated NBA blog, while the organization polls former winners, finalists and judges to cull a six-book shortlist. (NBF executive director Harold Augenbraum has read all 77 books, and offers comments on […]