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Discover Mystery Award Goes to Ronald Sharp
Ronald Sharp has won the first annual Discover Mystery Award and a contract with Poisoned Pen Press for his book No Regrets, No Remorse. Dana Stabenow, an Edgar Award-winning novelist, was the guest judge for the award. For more information on Poisoned Pen Press and the Discover Mystery Award, click here.
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Goes to Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad, the award-winning biographer of The Life of Langston Hughes, literary critic, and professor emeritus at Stanford University, is the winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
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ALA Hands Out First Adult Prizes to Massie, Enright
At its annual convention being held in Anaheim, the American Library Association awarded its first-ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction to Irish novelist Anne Enright for her book The Forgotten Waltz (W.W. Norton). Robert K. Massie, meanwhile, took home top honors for nonfiction for Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House).
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National Book Award Finalists Get Exhibition
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has launched an online exhibition at www.nationalbook.org of the 373 books that were National Book Award Fiction Finalists from 1950 to 2011, some well-known, others nearly forgotten.
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Max Hastings Receives 2012 Pritzker Military Award
British historian Sir Max Hastings has been named the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
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David Harsent and Ken Babstock Win Griffin Poetry Prize
David Harsent’s Night and Ken Babstock’s Methodist Hatchet win the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest.
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Natasha Trethewey Named Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th Poet Laureate, and will open the Library of Congress's annual literary season in the fall with a reading on September 13.
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2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Announced
The 24th annual Benjamin Franklin Awards were announced June 4, honoring excellence in publishing and presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
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Oprah's Book Club Selects 'Wild'
Officially kicking off "Oprah Book Club 2.0" on June 4, Oprah Winfrey has selected Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Random House) as her first pick.
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2012 Orange Prize Goes to 'The Song of Achilles'
Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury) has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. Joanna Trollope, chair of judges for the prize, said: "This is a more than worthy winner – original, passionate, inventive and uplifting. Homer would be proud of her.”
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The Pulitzer Effect: How Much Did 2012’s Winners Jump?
Five weeks after the 2012 Pulitzer winners were announced, we looked at Nielsen BookScan sales numbers to see just how much the prize helped--and the results were mixed.
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2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award Goes to Hailey Leithauser
Hailey Leithauser has won the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award, presented by the Poetry Foundation. The award is designed to recognize an American poet of at least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection of poetry.
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Karen Russell Wins NYPL's Young Lions Award
At a ceremony Monday night, Karen Russell won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia! (Knopf).
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IBPA Names Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 24th Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards, honoring excellence in publishing. The three finalists in each of the 54 categories were chosen from close to 1,300 entries, and one winner per category will be announced at the Benjamin Franklin Awards ceremony on Monday evening, June 4th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York city on the eve of BookExpo America 2012.
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Kinney, Selznick Win Top Prizes at Children's Choice Awards
The fifth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were awarded Monday evening at a charity gala in New York City, kicking off the 93rd annual Children’s Book Week. Jarrett J. Krosoczka hosted the event, at which Jeff Kinney was named Author of the Year, and Brian Selznick named Illustrator of the Year.
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Mobile Library, 15-Year-Old Win National Book Foundation Awards
The board of the National Book Foundation has awarded its fourth annual Innovations in Reading Prizes to five individuals and organizations for "demonstrating passion, creativity, dedication, and leadership in the service of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading."
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'The View from Lazy Point' Wins 2012 Orion Book Award
Author and biologist Carl Safina has won the 2012 Orion Book Award for The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Holt), in recognition of the book’s success in addressing the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought-provoking, and engaging manner.
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Zarakolu To Receive AAP Freedom to Publish Award
Ragip Zarakolu, a voice for free expression in Turkey, has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award.
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NBA Entry Process Now Open to Publishers
The National Book Foundation has issued entry forms and guidelines for the 2012 National Book Awards. The organization has also released the names of the 20 judges who will be choosing the award winners of the four prizes: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.
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The Best of Northwest Literature: The 25th Annual Oregon Book Awards
Winners included Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers and Carl Adamshick's Curses and Wishes.
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