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IPA Seeking Nominations for $10,000 Prix Voltaire
The International Publishers Association has opened the call for nominees for its freedom to publish award, which last year was renamed The Prix Voltaire.
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Reported Trump Spending Cuts Would Kill NEH, NEA
In an effort to shrink federal bureaucracy by cutting spending, President-elect Donald Trump and his administration reportedly intend to eliminate the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts.
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Zadie Smith, Ann Patchett Among 2016 NBCC Finalists
Thirty finalists, including the author of 'Swing Time,' Zadie Smith, 'LaRose' author Louise Erdrich, and 'Commonwealth' author Ann Patchett, are up for NBCC Awards.
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NBCC Launches Fellowship for Emerging Book Critics
The National Book Critics Circle is launching the NBCC Emerging Critics Fellowship to develop and nurture emerging book critics with training and guidance for one year.
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NEA Announces 2017 Creative Writing Fellowships, Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of its Creative Writing Fellowships for fiscal year 2017, as well as its grants to nonprofit organizations for literary publishing projects.
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Chapel Hill Restaurant's Book Prize Nourishes Southern Writers, Booksellers
The Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill has sponsored a literary award since 2013, and recently increased the prize to $5,000 for the best debut novel about the South.
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Village Books Owners to Receive Rittenhouse Award
PubWest has named Chuck and Dee Robinson, owners of Village Books in Bellingham and Lynden, Wash., recipients of the 2017 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award.
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'March: Book Three' Wins 2016 NBA for Young People's Literature
Members of the publishing industry gathered at Cipriani Wall Street for the 67th National Book Awards, where John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell won for 'March: Book Three.'
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'March,' Borzutzky, Kendi, and Whitehead Win 2016 National Book Awards
At the 67th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the junction where politics and publishing meet was in the spotlight from the start.
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Madeline Thien Wins 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Thien has won the Canadian literary prize, which comes with a C$100,000 purse, for her novel 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing.'
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'New York Times Book Review' Announces Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2016
The 'New York Times Book Review' has revealed the 10 titles on its 64th annual list of Best Illustrated Children's Books.
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Paul Beatty Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize
Paul Beatty has won the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 'The Sellout,' making him the first American author to win the award.
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Exploring Bob Dylan's Slim Bibliography
Rounding up all 'PW' coverage of books penned by the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
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Internet Reacts to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
The Internet proved predictably opinionated upon learning that Bob Dylan had been chosen as the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Bob Dylan Wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Songwriter and lyricist Bob Dylan was named the 109th laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 13, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
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Finalists for 2016 National Book Awards Announced
Among the nominees for this year's awards, which will be given out on November 16, are Colson Whitehead, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Peter Gizzi.
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Finalists Announced for 2016 NBA in Young People's Literature
On Thursday morning, the National Book Foundation narrowed its longlist down to five finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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National Book Foundation Names 5 Under 35
The honorees for the program's eleventh year include Brit Bennett, Yaa Gyasi, Greg Jackson, S. Li, and Thomas Pierce.
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Donoghue, Thien Among the Shortlisted for Canada's Giller Prize
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, includes works by Emma Donoghue and Mona Awad.
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Gene Luen Yang Gets 2016 'Genius Grant'
Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, author of the YA graphic novels 'American Born Chinese' and 'Boxers' and 'Saints,' both nominated for National Book Awards, was among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur fellowships – the so-called Genius Grants.
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