Italian author Claudio Magris, best-known for DANUBE and MICROCOSMS, has been given the annual Frankfurt Booksellers Peace Prize. The AP notes he is “often considered a contender for the Nobel prize in literature. AP In Australia, Tim Winton has won the country’s top fiction prize, the Miles Franklin Award, for the fourth time, for his novel BREATH.
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Michael Thomas was the surprise winner of the IMPAC Prize for his debut novel MAN GONE DOWN, published by Grove/Atlantic. The judges said: “We never know his name. But the African-American protagonist of Michael Thomas’s masterful debut, Man Gone Down, will stay with readers for a long time. Tuned urgently to the way we live now, [Man Gone Down] is a novel brilliant in its scope and energy, and deeply moving in its human warmth.” Len Vlahos has been promoted to chief operating officer at the American Booksellers Association, filling the position held by Oren Teicher before he advanced to […]
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Yesterday Barnes & Noble named Katherine Howe’s debut novel The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane as their latest chainwide “recommended” title. Harper UK’s children’s division is making the same cuts to staff that were recently imposed on the rest of the company, with publishing directors Gillie Russell and Sue Buswell both leaving the company. But managing director Mario Santos tells the Bookseller “both Gillie and Sue have agreed to continue to work with us on specific projects.” But an update of the story says Buswell will join Random House Children’s at the end of June as part-time maternity cover for […]
July Indie Next Picks
The Angel’s Game: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz ZafonBorder Songs: A Novel by Jim LynchThe Case of the Missing Servant: A Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin HallHow I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve HelyA Happy Marriage: A Novel by Rafael YglesiasThe Blue Notebook: A Novel by James A. LevineSworn to Silence: A Thriller by Linda CastilloShimmer by Eric BarnesBlack Water Rising: A Novel by Attica LockeLove Begins in Winter: Five Stories by Simon Van BooyThe Lace Makers of Glenmara: A Novel by Heather BarbieriYou or Someone Like You by Chandler BurrSo Happy Together by Maryann McFaddenEverything Matters! A Novel […]
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The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for excellence in children’s literature have gone to Terry Pratchett’s NATION for fiction and poetry; Candace Fleming’s THE LINCOLNS: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary for nonfiction; and Margaret Mahy and illustrator Polly Dunbar’s BUBBLE TROUBLE for picture book. Dan O’Connell, who has been providing publicity and marketing services to clients of The Strothman Agency since 2003, will now run a spinoff, Epilogue Media–offering those services for a fee to outside authors as well as Strothman clients. Consumers Union will distribute their book titles through Ingram Publisher Services.
World's Richest Children's Prize Launched, for Arabic Books
The new Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature, worth approximately $275,000, was announced this morning at BEA. It is backed by the ruler of Sharjah and sponsored by the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation. The announcement sas the prize is “designed to preserve Arab children’s culture in the third millennium. The first winner will be named in November.