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Churchwell, Markovits Win Eccles Award
Author and 2014 Man Booker Prize judge, Sarah Churchwell, along with Benjamin Markovits, author and Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2013, are the joint winners of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award.
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Klein Wins Canada's Biggest Nonfiction Prize
Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate' has won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
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2014 National Book Award Finalists Named
The National Book Foundation revealed the finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature.
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Richard Flanagan Wins 2014 Man Booker Prize
Australian writer Richard Flanagan was awarded the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel, 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' at a ceremony at London's Guildhall on Tuesday evening.
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Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
French author Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was revealed Thursday.
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Scotiabank Giller 2014 Shortlist
Six finalists for Canada's biggest fiction award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, were unveiled on October 6.
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Shortlist Announced for 'FT,' McKinsey & Co Business Book of the Year Award
The winner will be announced at a dinner ceremony on November 11 in London, and will receive £30,000, with each shortlisted author receiving £10,000.
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2014 National Book Award Fiction Longlist Announced
The list of 10 finalists includes a previous National Book Award winner, two finalists for the award, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and two first time authors.
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Canada's Big Fiction Prize Grows
The founder of Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize announced yesterday that the prize purse will double, to C$140,000.
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National Book Award 2014 Nonfiction Finalists
Among this year's nominees are the first cartoonist to be considered for the prize (Roz Chast), a Pulitzer Prize winner (Edward O. Wilson), and a Tony winner (John Lahr).
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National Book Award 2014 Poetry Finalists
Among the poets on this year’s longlist are two former National Book Award Finalists and two former Poets Laureate of the United States.
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2014 NBA Young People's Literature Longlist Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2014 National Book Award longlist for Young People’s Literature.
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National Poetry Series Ups Cash Prize
Beginning this year, the five winners of the National Poetry Series' Open Competition will receive a $10,000 prize, up from $1,000.
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Ursula K. Le Guin to Receive NBF Lifetime Achievement Award
Neil Gaiman will present the medal to Le Guin at the 65th National Book Awards ceremony on November 19, in New York City.
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Louise Erdrich Wins 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award
Established in memory of Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, the $25,000 award is presented biannually to a living American author whose "scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature."
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Ferris, Fowler Make 2014 Booker Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize has been announced, and includes, for the first time in the prize's history, writers from outside the U.K and Commonwealth.
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2014 Rona Jaffe Winners Announced
Each winner will receive $30,000, which will be presented on September 18 at a reception in New York City.
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Judith Appelbaum to Get BISG Lifetime Award
Judith Appelbaum will be presented with the 2014 Lifetime Service Award at the BISG annual meeting on September 19, 2014 in New York City.
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Robert Hass Wins $100K Poetry Prize
The Academy of American Poets has awarded Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate Robert Hass the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award.
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Letterman Named 2014 Thurber Finalist
His satirical picture book, 'This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me),' written with Bruce McCall, is one of three titles up for the prize.
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