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2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Award Finalists Announced
The 2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Awards finalists have been announced by the American Booksellers Association.
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Second Annual Are You a Librarian Superhero Contest Launched
Gale, a part of Cengage learning, has launched the second annual Are you a Librarian Superhero contest to recognize a librarian who is making a difference for their library and community.
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Baldacci, Dawes, Muske-Dukes Win Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards
Poets & Writers has announced that David Baldacci, Kwame Dawes, and Carol Muske-Dukes are the recipients of the 2012 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Kathryn Court is the winner of the editor's award.
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Gal Beckerman Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize
The Jewish Book Council announced that Gal Beckerman was awarded the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his first book, When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone (HMH).
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Grant for Midlist Children's Book Authors Established
Author Jane Yolen and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators have created a new grant to honor midlist authors.
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B&N Names 'Discover Great New Writers' Finalists
Barnes & Noble has announced the six finalists for the 2011 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble.
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ABA and the Center for Fiction Announce Flaherty-Dunnan Partnership
The ABA will select 450 bookstores around the U.S. focused on literary fiction to receive tabletop displays, posters and shelf talkers for the seven shortlisted novels.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Take Home Top Kids’ Prizes
Last Monday, the American Library Association announced its annual Youth Media Awards at its Midwinter conference, held this year in Dallas. The 2012 John Newbery Medal went to author Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt (FSG), a semiautobiographical story set in the town of Norvelt, Pa. The Randolph Caldecott Medal went to Chris Raschka for A Ball for Daisy (Random House/Schwartz & Wade), a wordless picture book about a dog and its beloved red ball. And the Michael L. Printz Award was given to first-time author John Corey Whaley for Where Things Come Back (S&S/Atheneum), about the disappearance of a teenager and the possible reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; Whaley also won the William C. Morris Debut Author Award.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley: Where They Were When the Award Call Came
Three lucky authors got phone calls from the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz committees, letting each of them know they had won the top prize.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Jack Gantos has won the 2012 Newbery Medal for Dead End in Norvelt, Chris Raschka has won the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy, and John Corey Whaley has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Where Things Come Back.
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Eugenides and Hochschild Among 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists
At a gala event at Artists Space in downtown New York, the NBCC announced its finalists for awards for 2011 books in six categories, along with winners of two honorary citations. Click to read our reviews of all of the finalist books.
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2012 Edgar Award Nominees Announced
Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction. The winners will be announced at a gala banquet on April 26 in New York.
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2011 Story Prize Finalists: DeLillo, Millhauser, Pearlman
The finalists for this year's Story Prize are The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo (Scribner), We Others by Steven Millhauser (Knopf), and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books).
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Walter Dean Myers Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
As a kid growing up in Harlem, Walter Dean Myers admits he often led with his fists and struggled academically before dropping out of high school at 17 to join the army. But in the decades since, he's proved to be a master at using words to make his case — a skill that will be in high demand as he becomes the nation's third Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He succeeds Katherine Paterson, who has served since 2010.
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Australia Names Two Children's Laureates
Alison Lester and Boori Pryor have been named Australia's first-ever Children's Laureates. They will travel to every state and territory in the country during their two-year terms, “to inspire as many children to read as possible.”
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Liksom Takes the 2011 Finlandia Prize
The Trans-Siberian Express is the backdrop for the winning novel Compartment No. 6 (or Hytti no. 6 in Finnish) for the 2011 Finlandia Prize.
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Russian Booker of the Decade Goes to Chudakov
Alexander Chudakov won the Russian Booker of the Decade with A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps, a novel that was short-listed for the 2001 Russian Booker Prize.
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Letters, Blizzard and Magic at Russia's 2011 Big Book Award
At this year’s Big Book Award, the biggest literary award in Russia, held at the Russian National Library’s Pashkov House, the winners were familiar names with proven literary credentials.
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