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WNDB Announces Inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant Recipients
We Need Diverse Books has selected the first five winners of the Walter Dean Myers grants for emerging writers and illustrators that it launched last fall.
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'N.Y. Times' Announces 2015 Best Illustrated Children's Books
The 'New York Times' has announced its Best Illustrated List for books published in 2015.
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Deb Heard Tapped to Lead Hurston/Wright Foundation
The African American literary nonprofit marked its 25th anniversary by naming Deb Heard, a former Washington Post editor, its new executive director and announcing the winners of the H/W Legacy Awards, its annual literary prizes.
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The 2015 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
The National Book Foundation announced the finallists for the 2015 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 18 at the 66th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony in New York City.
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Marlon James Takes Booker Prize
Following last night's announcement that Marlon James had won the Man Booker Prize for 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' Riverhead said it was going back to press for 75,000 copies.
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Svetlana Alexievich Wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
Alexievich, a Belarusian journalist and author of the 2005 nonfiction work 'Voices from Chernobyl,' was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
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WNDB's Debut Walter Award Ceremony Set for Next March
We Need Diverse Books has announced that on March 18, 2016, the organization will bestow its first Walter Dean Myers Award.
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2015 NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature Announced
The longlist was announced on Monday for the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The finalists will be named on October 14; the winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on November 18.
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International Flavor for 2015 Man Booker Shortlist
The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500, and the winner will receive a further £50,000.
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Four Questions for...Immigrant Writing Prize Creator Ilan Stavans
The Restless Books publisher, and creator of the just-announced Prize for New Immigrant Writing, said he hopes the literary honor will help dispel negative stereotypes of immigrants.
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Clegg, Yanagihara Make 2015 Man Booker Longlist
Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler, Hanya Yanagihara, and literary agent Bill Clegg are among the U.S. writers longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.
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Man Booker Launches Podcast
Hosted by Joe Haddow, producer of the BBC's Radio 2 Book Club, the episodes will go live alternate Friday mornings from July 24 through to the winner announcement in October.
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Is This the Greatest Book Award Acceptance Speech Ever?
Bryan Stevenson took home the Carnegie Medal for 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption' and gave a riveting speech that left the audience buzzing.
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‘This One Summer’ Wins Eisner for Best Graphic Novel
Cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki snagged the best book award on a night when quite a few women creators took home Eisner book awards.
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Rosie Rowell Wins 2015 Branford Boase Award
Debut author Rosie Rowell and her editor Emily Thomas were announced as the winners of the 2015 Branford Boase Award for 'Leopold Blue' at an award ceremony July 9 at Walker Books in London.
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Man Booker, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Combine
In 2016, the new prize will transition to an annual award recognizing a work translated into English.
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ALA 2015: Doerr, Stevenson Win Carnegie Medals
Doerr won for his book All The Light We Cannot See (which also received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), while Bryan Stevenson won for Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
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Landman, Grill Win 2015 Carnegie, Greenaway Medals in U.K.
The winners of the 2015 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals were announced in London on Monday, June 22.
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Twenty-Five Years Of Discovery
On May 12, nearly 300 people gathered at the Standard Hotel in New York City’s Meatpacking District to celebrate 25 years of Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Program.
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PW Launches 'Publishing Luminaries' Awards
The awards will identify and celebrate talented young members of the U.S. publishing community, and bring recognition to them on a global stage.



