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Audible and the Center for Fiction Establish Litarary Award on Writing on Illness

| 02/28/2013 @ 12:00AM

The Christopher Doheny Award, which recognizes excellence in fiction or nonfiction on the topic of serious illness, will be administered and awarded annually by The Center for Fiction.
New National Book Awards Online Submission Process Opens April 1

| 02/21/2013 @ 12:00AM

This year, for the first time, the National Book Foundation will offer an all-online submission process allowing publishers to submit and pay for National Book Award entries using one simple online system.
Atwood, Lethem, Edugyan Named 2013 Giller Prize Jury

| 02/13/2013 @ 12:00AM

The Giller Prize, recognizing excellence in Canadian fiction (long format or short stories), has named its 2013 Jury: Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan, and Jonathan Lethem. The prize longlist will be announced September 16, 2013 and the winner will be named on November 5. Will Ferguson's 419 won the prize in 2012.
Princeton University Press Wins Top Honor at PROSE Awards

| 02/07/2013 @ 12:00AM

Officials from the Association of American Publishers have announced that the 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award has been presented to Princeton University Press for Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD.
B&N Names 'Discover' Finalists

| 02/04/2013 @ 12:00AM

Barnes & Noble has named the six finalists in its annual writing contest, the Discover Great New Writers Award.
2013 Caldecott Caps Busy Year for Jon Klassen

By Carolyn Juris | 01/29/2013 @ 03:30PM

Jon Klassen was up early on Monday morning – not because he was expecting a career-changing phone call, but because he had a plane to catch.
'Pure Shock and Surprise' for 2013 Printz Winner Nick Lake

By John A. Sellers | 01/29/2013 @ 03:30PM

Nick Lake had been working at home in Oxford England for hours when the phone rang.
Katherine Applegate on Winning the 2013 Newbery

By Diane Roback | 01/29/2013 @ 03:30PM

Normally Katherine Applegate would have been in her house in San Francisco the morning that "the call" came in.
2013 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Coverage

| 01/29/2013 @ 09:00AM

Read PW's coverage of the annual awards from ALA, featuring interviews with the newly minted 2013 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Medalists.
Mantel Wins Costa Award

| 01/29/2013 @ 12:00AM

Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies has won another major literary award, taking home the Costa Book Award and its £30,000 prize. Late last year, the novel won the Booker Prize (as did the previous book in her series, Wolf Hall), making Bring Up the Bodies the only book to win the Booker and the Costa in the same year.
Award for Southern Fiction Expands to Middle Grade

| 01/29/2013 @ 12:00AM

The Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, sponsored by the Reba and Dave Williams Foundation for Literature and the Arts, is expanding with a new prize, The Willie Morris Award for Middle Grade Readers.
Applegate, Klassen, Lake Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz

By Diane Roback | 01/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

Katherine Applegate has won the 2013 Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan (Harper); Jon Klassen has won the 2013 Randolph Caldecott Medal for This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick); and Nick Lake has won the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award for In Darkness (Bloomsbury).
Bologna Book Fair Establishes New Prize

| 01/24/2013 @ 02:30PM

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and for the first time, BolognaFiere and the Italian Publishers Association will award the BOP – the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year.
2013 Man Booker International Prize Finalists Announced

| 01/24/2013 @ 12:00AM

Ten writers are on the judges’ list of finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognizes one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The finalists include Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson.
2013 Edgar Nominations Announced

| 01/16/2013 @ 12:00AM

Mystery Writers of America has announced the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards nominees, to be presented on May 2, 2013 in New York. Among the nominees are Gillian Flynn, Dennis Lehane, and Walter Mosley, all nominated for Best Novel. For a full list of the nominees, check out the Edgars Web site.
National Book Awards to Add Longlist

| 01/15/2013 @ 11:00AM

In an effort to broaden the reach and impact of the National Book Awards, the National Book Foundation will select a longlist of 10 titles in each of its four categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature), beginning in 2013. In addition, judges comprising the four panels will no longer be limited to writers.
Chaon, Diaz and Watkins Named Story Prize Finalists

| 01/15/2013 @ 12:00AM

The nine-year-old Story Prize, which honors short story collections, has named its three finalists for 2012.
2012 National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced

| 01/14/2013 @ 12:00AM

The 30 finalists in six categories for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Click through for the full list.
The Call That Changes Everything – or Not

| 01/11/2013 @ 07:00PM

How does winning the Newbery or Caldecott medal change the lives of the winners? PW caught up with each of the medalists of the past five years to find out.

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