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Bologna 2022: Marie-Aude Murail and Suzy Lee Win 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Awards

By Sally Lodge | 03/22/2022 @ 10:00AM

This year’s recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award are France’s Marie-Aude Murail (l.), for writing; and Suzy Lee, from the Republic of Korea, for illustration.
NBCC Awards 2022: Moving Forward With An Eye to the Past

By Claire Kirch | 03/17/2022 @ 08:00PM

The NBCC virtual awards ceremony Thursday evening was an upliffting affair, with a diverse group of award recipients underscoring the importance of books, both to audiences today and to future generations.
SCBWI Announces Golden Kite Awards; Jason Reynolds Delivers a Paean to Mailboxes

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 03/17/2022 @ 03:00PM

Rather than reveal this year's Golden Kite Award winners during its winter conference, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators presented the awards in a stand-alone program on March 15; the event featured remarks from National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds.
Percival Everett and Tina Fey Are 2023 PEN Lit Award Winners

By Sophia Stewart | 03/03/2022 @ 08:00AM

'Dr. No' by Percival Everett (Graywolf) received the evening's top prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Tina Fey won the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award at the March 2 event in midtown Manhattan.
Hernández, Choi, Renkl, Peters, and Miles Win 2022 PEN Lit Awards

by Sophia Stewart | 03/01/2022 @ 10:00AM

'The Kissing Bug' by Daisy Hernández (Tin House) received the evening's top prize, the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, at the February 28 event in midtown Manhattan.
French Dominates 2022 BolognaRagazzi Book Awards

By Ed Nawotka | 02/22/2022 @ 09:00AM

The winners of the 2022 BolognaRagazzi Book Awards, given in six categories, have been announced.
Submissions Open for 2022 U.S. Selfies

By PW Staff | 02/01/2022 @ 10:00AM

Submissions are now open for the 2022 U.S. Selfies awards for self-published books. The 2022 awards submission period will be open until the night of March 31.
Six Writers Each Receive $50,000 from United States Artists Org

By Claire Kirch | 01/26/2022 @ 09:00AM

United States Artists, a Chicago-based arts funding organization, announced that six writers are included in this year's slate of 63 USA Fellows, each of whom is receiving an unrestricted $50,000 award.
PEN America Announces Finalists for 2022 Literary Awards

by Sophia Stewart | 01/26/2022 @ 03:00AM

65 authors and translators are nominated across 11 awards. Winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony on February 28.
Abdurraqib, Lin Win ALA’s 2022 Carnegie Medals

by Andrew Albanese | 01/24/2022 @ 12:00AM

At a virtual event on January 23, Lin took home the fiction honor for 'The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu' and Hanif Abdurraqib won the nonfiction honor for 'A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance.'
NBCC Awards Finalists Announced

By Sophia Stewart | 01/20/2022 @ 09:01PM

On January 20, the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists in six categories for its annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year.
Lebanese Publisher Dar Al Jadeed Wins 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire

By John Maher | 11/23/2021 @ 09:00AM

Dar Al Jadeed Publishing House, the Lebanese publisher, has been awarded the 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire by the International Publishers Association’s Freedom to Publish Committee. Its cofounder, a prominent critic of Hezbollah, was murdered in February.
Dusapin, Espada, Lo, Miles, and Mott Win 2021 National Book Awards

By John Maher | 11/17/2021 @ 09:00PM

'Last Night at the Telegraph Club,' 'Winter in Sokcho,' 'Floaters: Poems,' 'All That She Carried,' and 'Hell of a Book' took home the prizes. Three of the five winners were published by imprints of Penguin Random House, with two from Dutton.
Guatemala's F&G Editores Wins AAP International Freedom to Publish Award

By John Maher | 11/17/2021 @ 09:00AM

Guatemala's F&G Editores publishing house has won the 2021 Association of American Publishers International Freedom to Publish | Jeri Laber Award. The publisher's founder, Raúl Figueroa Sarti, and his colleagues have been threatened with censure and worse by the Guatemalan government and others for nearly 20 years.
Wisconsin Booksellers Named PW Star Watch Superstars of 2021

By Ed Nawotka | 11/17/2021 @ 07:00AM

Gretchen Treu and Wes Lukes, co-owners of A Room of One’s Own in Madison, Wis., were named the 2021 Superstars at last night’s virtual celebration of PW Star Watch, a program that honors up-and-coming creatives in the book business.
Omar El Akkad Wins the C$100,000 Giller Prize

By Ed Nawotka | 11/09/2021 @ 08:30AM

Last night, Omar El Akkad was announced as the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 'What Strange Paradise.' The prize is Canada's top award for English-language fiction.
South African Damon Galgut Wins 2021 Booker Prize

By Ed Nawotka | 11/04/2021 @ 07:00AM

South African novelist Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Promise,' published by Europa Editions. The novel follows the lives of three white siblings brought together by a series of funerals that follow the trajectory of the history of post-apartheid South Africa.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

By John Maher | 10/07/2021 @ 07:00AM

The U.K.-based English-language Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” He is the fifth English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in the past decade.
2021 National Book Award Finalists Announced

By Sophia Stewart | 10/05/2021 @ 10:15AM

Hanif Abdurraqib, Anthony Doerr, Ge Fei, and Lauren Groff are among this year's National Book Award finalists. The winners will be announced live on November 17 at the 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony, which will be held exclusively online.

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