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  • Shortlist for 'PW' Bookstore and Sales Rep Awards 2013

    Five bookstores and six sales representatives are named semi-finalists for the twentieth anniversary PW book industry awards.

  • B&N Discover Awards Go to Cheryl Strayed and Amanda Coplin

    The 2012 Barnes & Noble Discover Awards went to The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (Harper) for fiction and Wild by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) for nonfiction. The awards were presented at a ceremony in New York on March 6.

  • Preston's 'Sword of the Spirit' Wins Top Canadian Lit Prize

    It took historian Andrew Preston nearly 10 years to write Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, but his efforts did not go unnoticed. On Monday Preston won one of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards: the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction.

  • Yale Awards $1.35M to Nine Writers

    The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale announced the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes, a new global writer’s award created with a gift from the late Donald Windham and his partner, Sandy M. Campbell.

  • Fountain, Solomon Take NBCCs

    Although, for various reasons, a number of winners could not be there in person, the National Book Critics Circle awards were handed out February 28 before a large crowd at the New School in New York City.

  • 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to 'Billy Lynn,' Solomon, Caro

    Big winners at the National Book Critics Circle Awards for the publishing year 2012 were Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon, and Robert A. Caro's fourth volume in his Lyndon Johnson biography.

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Nick Lake had been working at home in Oxford England for hours when the phone rang.

  • Katherine Applegate on Winning the 2013 Newbery

    Normally Katherine Applegate would have been in her house in San Francisco the morning that "the call" came in.

  • 2013 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Coverage

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

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