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2012 PubWest Book Design Awards Announced

| 04/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

Jennifer New's Dan Eldon: Safari is a Way of Life, published by Chronicle Books, has won the Judges Choice award as part of the 2012 PubWest Book Design Awards.
Pulitzer Winners Go Back to Press

| 04/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

History winner Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable will see the most significant new print run, with Viking publishing 9,000 copies with a sticker adhered to the book and an additional 10,000 with the seal imprinted on the cover.
Just How Much Does a Pulitzer Prize Help a Book's Sales?

By Gabe Habash | 04/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

PW took a look at the last five winners of the fiction prize—A Visit from the Goon Squad, Tinkers, Olive Kitteridge, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Road—and the effects the win had on sales.
Tracking Amazon: Pulitzer Fiction Finalists Jump

| 04/18/2012 @ 12:00AM

They may be a day later than the books that actually won Pulitzers, but the three finalists for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction have jumped considerably.
Tracking Amazon: Pulitzer Winners See Huge Spikes

| 04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM

Poetry winner Tracy K. Smith saw her book Life on Mars jump to #101 from #35,886, making it the second highest sales increase of the past 24 hours. The title is now backordered on Amazon's site.
2012 Pulitzer Prize: No Fiction Award, Jurors 'Shocked'

By Gabe Habash | 04/16/2012 @ 12:00AM

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced April 16, and the big surprise wasn't who won, but who didn't: for the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded.
Eugenides, 'Blood, Bones & Butter' Win Indies Choice Awards

| 04/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Marriage Plot and Blood, Bones & Butter, along with The Tiger's Wife and Between Shades of Gray were the winners at the 2012 Indies Choice Awards. The E.B. White Read-Aloud awards went to, in a tie, Maile Meloy and Colin Meloy, authors of The Apothecary and Wildwood, respectively.
Call for Applicants for 2012 Ashmead Award

| 04/04/2012 @ 12:00AM

Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Ashmead Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
McKinney, Byrd Among Stoker Award Winners

By Peter Cannon | 04/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

At the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards banquet held Saturday, March 31, at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City, Joe McKinney’s Flesh Eaters (Pinnacle) won for superior achievement in a novel, while Allyson Byrd’s Isis Unbound (Dark Regions Press) won for superior achievement in a first novel.
Jerusalem Book Fair Fellowships Information

| 04/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Jerusalem International Book Fair American advisory committee announced that the deadline for applications for its editor and agent fellowships for the 2013 Fair has been set for Monday, July 16, 2012.
'The Black Banners' Wins Ridenhour Book Prize

| 03/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ali H. Soufan's The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (W.W. Norton) has won the ninth annual Ridenhour Book Prize, which "honors acts of truth-telling and outstanding works of social significance in publishing."
Guus Kuijer Winner of 2012 Lindgren Award

| 03/20/2012 @ 10:00AM

Dutch author Guus Kuijer is the 10th winner of the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon at the Bologna Book Fair, in a broadcast direct from Sweden that aired online and to a packed crowd at the Illustrator’s Café. Kuijer was selected from 184 candidates from 66 countries.
María Teresa Andruetto, Peter Sís Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards

| 03/19/2012 @ 11:00AM

The International Board on Books for Young People announced the winners of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards from the Bologna Book Fair on Monday. María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina has won the 2012 Author Award, and Peter Sís from the Czech Republic has won the 2012 Illustrator Award.
Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Finalists Announced

| 03/15/2012 @ 03:00PM

The ABA has named its finalists in the 2012 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, which honor, in the association’s words, “the types of books that indie booksellers champion best.”
Kyung-sook Shin Becomes First Woman to Win Man Asian Prize

| 03/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

For her novel, Please Look After Mom, Kyung-sook Shin won the Man Asian Literary Prize, becoming the first woman to win the prize in its five year history.
Big Night for the Little Guys

By Gabe Habash | 03/09/2012 @ 07:00PM

It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction prize, thanked her publisher, Lookout Books (the press for the University of North Carolina Wilmington), for choosing her as their debut author. “Little presses and little magazines are dedicated to keeping literature alive, and they deserve thanks from every writer; tonight, particularly from me,” said Pearlman.
National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to Pearlman, Jasanoff, Gaddis

By Gabe Habash | 03/08/2012 @ 12:00AM

Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman and Liberty's Exiles were among the winners at the NBCC Awards.
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards 'Untouchable' and 'Kosher Chinese'

By Gabe Habash | 03/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award honored Untouchable by Scott O'Connor (fiction) and Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy (nonfiction) at a ceremony in New York on March 7.
Tale of Rescued Chimps Wins Canadian Non-fiction Prize

| 03/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Andrew Westoll's study of the lives of rescued chimps wins C$25,000 Canadian non-fiction prize.

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