The list includes on author, DuPree, from the once-controversial Macmillan New Writing imprint: An Equal Stillness, by Francesca Kay Miles From Nowhere, by Nami Mun The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, by Ann Weisgarber The winner will be named June 3. (The shortlist for the “regular” Orange prize will be announced at the London Book Fair, on April 21.)Site
Awards
Nibbie Winners Include Obama
The British Book Award winners were announced last Friday night: Best Read: When Will There Be Good News, by Kate Atkinson Author of the Year: Aravind Adiga for The White TigerBiography: Dreams From My Father, by Barack ObamaCrime Thriller: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg LarssonPopular Fiction: Devil May Care, by Sebastian FaulksNon-Fiction: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate SummerscaleNew Writer: Tom Rob Smith for Child 44 Children’s Book: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie MeyerList In other awards, The International Association of Culinary Professionals’ cookbook honors were dominated by independent (and formerly independent) lines. Ten Speed Press received […]
May Indie Next List
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyBrooklyn by Colm ToibinThe Last Child: A Novel by John HartThe Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif LarsenThe Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. BehaWoodsburner: A Novel by John PipkinSecret Son: A Novel by Laila LalamiDark Places: A Novel by Gillian FlynnThe Wildwater Walking Club: A Novel by Claire Cook Sag Harbor: A Novel by Colson WhiteheadValeria’s Last Stand: A Novel by Marc FittenOn the Divinity of Second Chances: A […]
Awards: IMPAC Shortlist
Here are the eight titles in the running for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DÃaz (Dominican / American) Ravel by Jean Echenoz (French) in translationThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistani / British) The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland (American) The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen (Norwegian) in translation. The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt (American) Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Indian / British) Man Gone Down by Micheal Thomas (American) The winner will be named June 11.
Longlists for Orange, Miles Franklin Prizes
The Orange Prize announced its longlist for the 2009 prize yesterday, with authors such as Marilynne Robinson, Toni Morrison, Curtis Sittenfeld, Miriam Toews and Samantha Hunt making the cut. A shortlist of six will be announced on April 21, and the winner on June 3. List And ten novels were selected for the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist.Release
Announcements
Gary Young has won the Shelley Memorial Award, given annually by the Poetry Society of America to a living American poet “selected with reference to genius and need.” The 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award was given to Kathryn Ma for her collection, “All That Work and Still No Boys,” which will be published this fall by the University of Iowa Press. IndieBound has been named by ReBrand as one of its 100 Global Winning Brands.