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2016 Children's Choice Book Award Winners
The 2016 Children’s Choice Book Awards winners have been announced.
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Diversity Celebrated at 2016 Edgar Awards
The Mystery Writers of America named Walter Mosley its first African-American grand master and gave out awards to Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and Sisters in Crime, among others, at last night’s event.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, William Finnegan Among Pulitzer Winners
The novelist and the 'New Yorker' staff writer take home the prizes for fiction and biography respectively at the centennial awards ceremony.
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Morrison, Coates, Redniss Win 2016 PEN Awards
The ceremony, which honored authors such as Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates, was the first one in which PEN American announced the winners live.
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Bologna 2016: Meg Rosoff Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Meg Rosoff is the winner of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest children's book prize.
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Bologna 2016: Rotraut Susanne Berner and Cao Wenxuan Win 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
German author-illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner and Chinese author Cao Wenxuan are the winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration and writing.
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Mexican Author Wins Human Rights Award
Lydia Cacho is one of two writers who were recently named the winners of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism.
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Judges Announced for National Book Awards
The judges for the 2016 National Book Awards include novelists Karen Joy Fowler and Jesmyn Ward, author and former TV host Melissa Harris-Perry, and poet Jericho Brown.
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The 2016 NBCC Awards in Photos
Photos from this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards, held March 17 in New York City.
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Beatty, Jefferson, Nelson Win 2016 NBCC Awards
Paul Beatty's novel 'The Sellout', Margo Jefferson's memoir 'Negroland' and Maggie Nelson's critical work, 'The Argonauts', were among the books awarded 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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2016 Carle Honorees Announced
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has announced the recipients of its 2016 Carle Honors.
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Leovy, Alvar Win 2015 B&N Discover Awards
During a ceremony on Wednesday night, Jill Leovy took home the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in nonfiction for 'Ghettoside,' while Mia Alvar won in fiction for 'In the Country.' The award, which honors debut works, is now in its 26th year.
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Nominations Open for PW's 2016 Star Watch
Publishers Weekly is now welcoming nominations for the second PW Star Watch from all areas of the publishing community. The program recognizes up-and-coming talent and leadership in the industry.
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2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award Shortlist Announced
The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
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Reynolds, Kiely Win WNDB's Debut Walter Award
The inaugural Walter Dean Myers Award for outstanding children's literature in the YA category has been given to 'All American Boys' by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lauren Groff Among 2015 NBCC Finalists
Thirty finalists including 'Between the World and Me' author Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of 'Fates and Furies' Lauren Groff, and 'SPQR: A History of Rome' author Mary Beard are among those up for NBCC Awards.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2016 Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Winners
PW spoke with the three big winners of the ALA's 2016 Youth Media Awards, about what they were doing when the committee called with the good news.
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An 'Amazing' Honor for an 'Oddball' Book: Laura Ruby on Winning the 2016 Printz
When Laura Ruby got the phone call from the Printz committee this past Sunday, informing her that she had won the 2016 award, she was attending a lecture at Hamline University in St. Paul.
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'A Huge, Huge Shock': Matt de la Peña on His 2016 Newbery Medal
Well known for his realistic YA novels that explore class and racial identity, Matt de la Peña became the first Hispanic author to receive the John Newbery Medal on Monday, and only the second author to win the Newbery for a picture book.



