Share an Evening with Literary Luminaries at the Carnegie Medals Ceremony
You undoubtedly already know the three fiction and three nonfiction titles that make up the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence shortlist. You’re also likely talking them up to your patrons,...
View Article2014 Nebula Award Winners Announced
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the 2014 Nebula Award winners. Active SFWA members presented the awards this past Saturday during the 50th annual Nebula Awards...
View ArticleAll the Best Books Compilation: Narrative Nonfiction
There are three more categories to review as we look at the All the Best Books Compilation, a resource that compiles the results of 172 different authoritative awards and best-of-the-year selections to...
View Article2015 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature
This morning, the National Book Foundation released its 2015 Longlist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The 10 titles are listed below and linked to their Booklist reviews....
View Article2015 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
Today, the National Book Foundation announced its 2015 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The 10 titles are listed below and linked to their Booklist review when available. Finalists...
View Article2015 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction
Today, the National Book Foundation announced its 2015 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction. The 10 titles are listed below and linked to their Booklist review when available. Finalists...
View ArticleDon Delillo to Be Awarded the 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to...
This year, New York author Don Delillo will be honored with the National Book Foundation’s 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This lifetime achievement award is among the...
View Article2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners
On Wednesday, the winners and runners-up of the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize were announced. Listed below are the two finalists and two runners-up, their titles linked to Booklist reviews. Both...
View ArticleShort Story Contests and Their Winners
General interest magazines are scarce, and those publishing short fiction even scarcer. The old “slick” market, now almost entirely dominated by the New Yorker, is all but out of reach, at least for...
View ArticleSvetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy announced her win this morning, and described her works simply, as a “a monument to suffering and...
View ArticleMarlon James Wins the 2015 Man Booker Prize
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Jamaican author Marlon James was just announced as the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. The novel centers on the 1976 murder of Bob Marley as told through...
View Article2015 World Fantasy Award Winners
The 2015 winners of the World Fantasy Award were announced over the weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York, marking the last time victorious authors and editors would be...
View ArticleChildren’s Book Awards: Love Them or Hate Them?
Lynn and Cindy: ‘Tis the season! No, we don’t mean Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, or even New Year’s. It’s the season of awards and award speculation. Most publications’ year-end lists are already...
View ArticleDiversity in Book Awards: A Conversation
Shortly after the annual Youth Media Awards, novelist Ashley Hope Pérez (herself a fresh awardee: a Printz Honor for Out of Darkness) contacted me about helping facilitate a conversation she wished to...
View Article2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award winners for publishing year 2015 were announced at a ceremony in New York last night. NBCC, regarded as one of the most prestigious awards in the industry,...
View ArticleHow Do You Win a Booker Prize?
For the past 46 years, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, launched in 1969, has been awarded to the year’s best novel. Originally reserved for citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, and...
View ArticleNEA’s Big Read Gets Hip
Earlier today, the NEA Big Read program—the National Endowment for the Arts’ literature initiative—announced that it’s celebrating its 10th anniversary by adding 13 new titles to the books the...
View Article2016 Hugo Award Winners
On Saturday, the Hugo Awards announced their 2016 winners. As i09 notes, women—particularly women of color—were the night’s big winners, taking home seven awards. This feat was made all the more...
View ArticleNational Book Award Finalists Announced
The National Book Awards announced their list of finalists this morning. Here’s the shortlist, linked to their Booklist reviews. Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Association of Small Bombs,...
View ArticleNobel Literature Committee Anoints Laureate Americans Have Heard Of
An American celebrating the announcement of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe Nobel Committee delighted untold numbers of Americans today when they announced this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature had...
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