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NEA to Award $250,000 in Translation Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $250,000 in recommended grants to 16 translators to support the translation of works into English from 13 languages and 15 countries.
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Chris Ware Wins Four Eisner Awards, Brian K. Vaughan Takes Three
Chris Ware’s graphic novel-in-a-box, Building Stories (Pantheon), won four Eisner Awards including Best New Graphic Novel and Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga (Image) received three Eisners at the 25th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
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BISG Creates Industry Awards
The Book Industry Study Group will present its first ever industry awards at its annual meeting on September 27, in New York City.
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Jessica Williams Wins Ashmead Award
Jessica Williams, assistant editor at William Morrow, is the third recipient of The Ashmead Award.
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Shelton and Fickling Win Branford Boase Award
The 2013 Branford Boase Award was awarded Thursday to Dave Shelton and his editor David Fickling for A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.
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PEN American Center 2013 Literary Awards Shortlists
PEN American Center, the international human rights and literary organization, announced the shortlisted titles and judges for the 2013 PEN Literary awards.
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Nat'l Book Foundation Adds Three Board Members
The National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards, elected three new members to its board of directors.
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Carolina Wren Press Comes Full Circle
With a renewed focus on acquiring distinctly southern works, and a new prize named for best-selling author Lee Smith, Carolina Wren Press comes full circle.
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National Book Award Inspires Artwork for Children's Books
The National Book Foundation has launched Up All Night, an online exhibit of 228 children's titles that have won or been nominated for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.
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Desser Wins Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in Fiction
The Center for Fiction has named Robin Desser, executive v-p, editorial director of Knopf, as the recipient of the 2013 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.
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Tim O'Brien Wins 2013 Pritzker Military Award
The selection of O’Brien, a novelist and short story writer, marks the first time the award has been given to a fiction writer.
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Gardner, Pinfold Win 2013 Carnegie, Greenaway Medals
Sally Gardner has won the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon, and Levi Pinfold has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Black Dog.
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PubWest Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Counterpoint’s Jack Shoemaker
PubWest has awarded its 2013 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award for long-lasting contributions to the Western book community to Jack Shoemaker, editorial director and vice president of Counterpoint Press.
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Rysa Walker Wins Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Rysa Walker from Cary, N.C., has won Amazon's Breakthrough Novel contest with her YA title, Timebound.
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Bram Stoker Winners Announced
The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards June 15 in New Orleans. The winners included The Drowning Girls by Caitlin R. Kiernan and Life Rage by L.L. Soares.
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Fady Joudah and David McFadden Win 2013 Griffin Poetry Prizes
Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah and Canadian David McFadden each took home C$65,000 from the Griffin Poetry Prize awarded in Toronto last night.
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New Prize in Military History Created
The Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History has been created by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
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2013 Translation Prize Winners Announced
The fiction winner was Alyson Waters for her translation of Prehistoric Times by Eric Chevillard (Archipelago Books).
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2013 Book Design Awards Winners Announced
PubWest has announced the winners of the 2013 Book Design Awards, which recognize book design excellence across 24 categories.
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Graywolf Author Wins IMPAC Award
Graywolf author Kevin Barry, who lives in Ireland, received the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, City of Bohane. This is the second time a Graywolf author has received the prestigious award.