This win was an easy prediction as critics lined up to love Roberto Bolano’s 2666 even before it was published, as was Dexter Filkins’ widely-loved THE FOREVER WAR (for general nonfiction). Other winners: AutobiographyAriel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise BiographyPatrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul Criticism Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter PoetryAugust Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City and Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems(the first time in 35 years that two books have shared a prize)AP
Awards
April 2009 Indie Next List
A Reliable Wife: A Novel by Robert GoolrickThe Color of Lightning: A Novel by Paulette JilesThrough Black Spruce: A Novel by Joseph BoydenThe Long Fall by Walter MosleyThe Weight of Heaven: A Novel by Thrity UmrigarDarling Jim: A Novel by Christian MoerkA Fortunate Age: A Novel by Joanna Smith RakoffRevenge of the Spellmans: A Novel by Lisa LutzAll the Living: A Novel by C.E. MorganThe Little Sleep: A Novel by Paul TremblayPicking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin TorneoDevil’s Garden by Ace AtkinsSeeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the […]
ABA Indies Choice Book Award Nominees
Just announced, they include: Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction) * City of Thieves, by David Benioff (Viking) * The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow) * The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial) * Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon) * People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) * Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction) * American Buffalo, by Steven Rinella (Spiegel & Grau) * The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf) * Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg (Other Press) * A Voyage Long and Strange, […]
ABA Revamps Awards Program
With the fading out of the Book Sense branding program, the ABA is renaming their annual prizes the Indies Choice Book Awards. The seven categories have been revamped as well, now honoring an Indie Buzz book (fiction), Best Conversation Starter (nonfiction), Best Author Discovery (debut), Best Read-Aloud Book, Best YA Buzz Book, Most Engaging Author, and the Read-Aloud Hall of Fame. Book finalists will be picked by a bookseller jury, but the pool is still limited to monthly Book Sense/Indie Next list selections. Most Engaging Author Award nominees must be “engaging at in-store appearances” and have “a strong sense of […]
People and Awards
Marcy Goot joins Kaplan Publishing as executive director of marketing. Most recently she was vp of marketing for National Lampoon, after working for multiple book publishers. Also at Kaplan, Don Fehr has been promoted to editorial director, trade, and Ron Sharpe has been promoted to executive director of production and manufacturing. At ESPN Books, Richard (R. D.) Rosen has been hired as senior editor. An Edgar Award-winning author of several mysteries starring a major league baseball player-turned-detective, he was most recently a senior editor at Workman Publishing. Thomas Nelson’s Dale Wilstermann will move over to running the nonfiction trade group […]
Young Lion Finalists
Here are the finalists for The New York Public Library’s 2009 Young Lions Fiction Award, given to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or collection of short stories: Jon Fasman, The Unpossessed City Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric DisturbancesSana Krasikov, One More YearZachary Mason, The Lost Books of the OdysseySalvatore Scibona, The End