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NBA Winners Get Audiobooks from Recorded Books
Recorded Books will publish audiobooks of the 2011 National Book Awards winners in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young people's literature.
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Percy Siblings Both Get NEA Grants
As PW reported on Friday, the National Endowment for the Arts is awarding 863 grants totaling $22.5 million to organizations and individual writers across the country. Two of those individual writers are siblings: Benjamin Percy and Jennifer Percy.
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NBA Winners Going Back to Press
The four winners at Wednesday's National Book Awards are all getting rewarded by their publishers with increased print runs.
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NEA Gives $22 Million Across 863 Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country, totaling $22.5 million.
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PW Talks with NBA Winner Thanhha Lai
"This is more than I could have ever expected from telling one little story." With those words Thanhha Lai accepted the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature this past Wednesday night.
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National Book Awards 2011: The Finalists in Their Finery
The National Book Awards dinner is a gala affair, and while there can only be one winner, it's a huge event for all of the finalists. Our photographer caught up with each of the finalists in the Young People's Literature category last night.
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National Book Awards Go to Lai, Finney, Greenblatt, and Ward
The big winners at the 2011 National Book Awards were Thanhha Lai, Nikky Finney, Stephen Greenblatt, and Jesmyn Ward.
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Winners Named in the Tenth Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Lit Awards
The 10th annual Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright Legacy Awards for outstanding contributions to literature by African American writers were presented November 10th at a ceremony in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
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Milkweed Announces $10,000 Regional Poetry Prize
Milkweed Editions has announced that the Minneapolis literary nonprofit press is establishing in collaboration with a local law firm the annual Lindquist & Vennum Prize for poetry.
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Handicapping the Field: NBA Finalists in Fiction
The 2011 National Book Award winners will be announced next week on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Below, a score-card for your office or at-home betting pool and a breakdown of the fiction contenders from 2010 NBA winner Jaimy Gordon.
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Esi Edugyan’s Novel Wins Big Canadian Fiction Prize
Esi Edugyan’s novel Half-Blood Blues is this year’s winner of the C$50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s richest prize for fiction.
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PW Best Books 2011: Children's Books
We've assembled our list of the very best books published for children and teens in 2011. Did your favorites make the cut? Click through to see our selections for the year's best picture books, fiction, and nonfiction.
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'Poor Economics' Wins Business Book of the Year
Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo has won the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.
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PW Best Books 2011
We all love numbers, rankings, and lists; herald the best of anything, and we're seduced. After Bo Derek walked down the beach in her blonde cornrows, it was all about being a "10." At PW, we get to pick our "10," the books published this year that stayed with us, that we talked up, handed around, and of course argued about.
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Publishing Innovation Awards Deadline Extended
The deadline for the Publishing Innovation Awards has been extended until November 15.
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Richler Biography Wins New Canadian Prize
Charles Foran is the first author to win Canada’s newest and largest prize for nonfiction. His biography of one of Canada’s most famous writers, Mordecai Richler, won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
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Does the National Book Award Impact Foreign Sales?
The Booker Prize moves sales, especially for the winner. But can the same be said for the NBA? And what of foreign sales for the American nominees? This year, with the NBA longlist unveiled during the Frankfurt Book Fair, some thought there would be an immediate impact on foreign sales. They are still waiting.
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An NBA Fiction Judge Responds to Laura Miller
I read Laura Miller’s recent lambasting of our choices with a great deal of joy. Joy mostly because I love a good fight, and because one of the things missing from contemporary literature is a willingness to talk a little smack in defense of oneself and one’s ideals.
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Knopf Back to Press on Barnes's Booker Winner
With the news last night that the 2011 Man Booker Prize has gone to The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, the U.S. publisher of the title, Knopf, has gone back to press for an additional 40,000 copies, bringing total copies in print to 76,000.
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