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International Business Group Names Raccah Entrepreneurial Champion
The Committee of 200, an international organization dedicated to nurturing and advancing female entrepreneurs and corporate leaders, named Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah as their 2013 Entrepreneurial Champion.
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Caro Wins Plutarch Biography Award
Robert Caro’s The Passage of Power (Knopf) won the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2012 as judged by biographers.
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IBPA Names 2013 Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists in the 25th annual Benjamin Franklin Awards.
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News Briefs: Week of May 20, 2013
March Bookstore Sales Up and more
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E-Books and Banned Books: Innovations in Reading Winners
Now in its fifth year, the Innovations in Reading Prize this year recognized a book bank, a library that puts free books by the side of the road, a portable reading room, a banned book promotion project, and a a nonprofit that gets e-books to the developing world.
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Children's Choice Awards Announced
The winners of the sixth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were announced May 13 at a ceremony in New York City hosted by the Children’s Book Council.
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Drenka Willen Wins First Ottaway Award for Promotion of International Literature
Words without Borders, a nonprofit and online magazine, has announced that Drenka Willen is the first recipient of the James H. Ottaway Jr. Award for the Promotion of International Literature (aka the Ottaway).
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WNBA Announces 2013 Pannell Award Winners
A pair of Michigan booksellers – Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, and Bookbug in Kalamazoo – were honored.
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Lehane Takes Home First Edgar
It took 18 years, and 10 books, but Dennis Lehane finally got to take home a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe. At the 67th Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held Thursday night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, his Live by Night (Morrow), about a cop’s son gone bad, was named the Best Novel of the year by the Mystery Writers of America.
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National Book Awards Entry Forms Due June 3
The National Book Foundation is accepting entries for the 2013 National Book Awards through June 3. Click through for important dates and a link to the entry form.
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Erotic Canadian Novel Awarded 2012 Believer Book Award
Tamara Faith Berger's novel Maidenhead, published by Toronto's Coach House Books, has been named by The Believer magazine as the "strongest and most under-appreciated" fiction book of the year.
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Plutarch Biography Award Held May 18
For the first time ever, biographers will determine the best biography of the year when they bestow the Plutarch Award at BIO’s annual Compleat Biographer Conference in New York City on May 18. Click through for nominees.
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2013 Pulitzer Winners Get Sales Spike
It's only been one week since the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, but all five books that were awarded have already started to see the effects in sales.
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'Bamboo Stalk' Wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi has been announced as the winner of the sixth International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The winner was named by this year’s Chair of Judges, the Egyptian writer and academic Galal Amin, at a prize ceremony in Abu Dhabi. In addition to winning $50,000, Alsanousi is guaranteed an English translation of his novel.
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New Video Throws Spotlight on Newbery Authors
Seven Newbery Medal and Honor recipients discuss what the award means to them in a new video.
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ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals
The American Library Association has announced six books as finalists for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the U.S.
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'Yellow Birds' and 'Far From the Tree' Lead 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
The Cleveland Foundation has announced the winners of the 78th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
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Editing Two Pulitzer Winners in One Year: 'PW' Talks with David Ebershoff
The 2013 Pulitzer winners produced the rare feat of two books edited by the same person. David Ebershoff, editor of The Orphan Master's Son and Embers of War, is also an author (his latest book is The 19th Wife). PW caught up with Ebershoff just after he heard the prize announcement.
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2013 Pulitzer Prize: 'Orphan Master' Brings Fiction Prize Back
Last year's biggest Pulitzer announcement was the one that wasn't made, as the board decided not to award a fiction winner for the first time since 1977. This year's announcement was less controversial, as prizes were given in every category, including Fiction for Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son (Random House).
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2013 Thriller Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2013 Thriller Awards have been announced by International Thriller Writers (ITW). Winners will be announced at the Grand Hyatt in New York on July 13.



