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'Shine' Withdrawn as NBA Young People’s Literature Nominee
It turns out there will be only five nominations in the Young People Literature category of the National Book Awards. After receiving a request from the National Book Foundation that she withdraw her book from nomination, Lauren Myracle consented, a move that dropped Shine from the list. Last week, Chime by Franny Billingsley was added as a sixth nominee to the category, and Harold Augenbraum, NBF executive director, confirmed Monday that NBF staff had originally misheard Shine by Lauren Myracle for Chime when the list of nominees was read by the judges over the phone.
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21 Finalists for 2011 National Book Awards
The announcement of the nominees for the 2011 National Book Awards had an extra dose of drama this year as the National Book Foundation added a sixth selection to the Young People’s Literature category after the original broadcast over Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program Think Out Loud had only five nominees. Read our reviews of the nominated books.
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NBA Finalists Announced for Young People's Literature
The finalists for the 2011 National Book Award in Young People's Literature were announced on Wednesday. Originally five nominees were announced by former NBA Medalist Virginia Euwer Wolff; a sixth title was added a few hours later, after National Book Foundation executive director Harold Augebraum admitted there had been a “miscommunication.”
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National Book Awards Nominate 21 Finalists for 2011
The announcement of the nominees for the 2011 National Book Awards had an extra dose of drama this year as the National Book Foundation added a sixth selection to the Young People’s Literature category after the original broadcast over Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program Think Out Loud had only five nominees.
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Sixth Nominee Added to Young People's Literature Category
Citing “miscommunication” between the National Book Award judges and staff, six authors have been nominated in the 2011 Young People’s Literature category of the National Book Awards.
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2011 National Book Award Finalists Announced
The twenty-one finalists were announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Ecco Reissues Nobel Winner Tranströmer
Ecco will reissue two volumes of Nobel Prize winner Tomas Tranströmer's poetry: For the Living and the Dead: A Memoir and Poems, and Selected Poems, edited by Robert Hass. Both will be reissued in paperback next week, with e-books to follow.
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Mailer Prizes Go to Elie Wiesel, Keith Richards
Elie Wiesel, Keith Richards, Arundhati Roy and Gay Talese have all been honored by the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony.
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Nobel Prize Goes to Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature.
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5 Under 35 Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2011 5 Under 35: Shani Boianjiu, Danielle Evans, Mary Beth Keane, Melinda Moustakis, John Corey Whaley.
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Shortlist For Giller Revealed
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s richest prize for fiction, was announced Tuesday morning in Toronto.
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Rakoff Wins Thurber Prize for Humor
David Rakoff won the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book, Half Empty.
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Portland Author Finds Literary Love on the International Prize Circuit
Anyone who's spent time in the rights center at an international book fair might not recognize the romanticism of what's happening. Yes, people are importing and exporting literature, but, by the looks of it, you would think they're selling widgets. The set-up at Frankfurt, where the rights center is a windowless room lit by bad fluorescents and filled with rows of identical desks, speaks to the work happening.
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Lifetime Achievement National Book Awards Go to Ashbery and Kaplan
Poet John Ashbery will receive the 2011 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 62nd National Book Awards Ceremony and Mitchell Kaplan, bookseller and co-founder of the Miami International Book Fair, will receive the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
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Shortlist Announced for Financial Times Business Book of the Year
The finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award are Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo; Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen; Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser; Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan; Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt; The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin.
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National Book Awards Finalists To Be Revealed at Oregon Literary Arts Center
The 20 finalists for the 62nd National Book Awards will be announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting's morning radio program, Think Out Loud, in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland, Oregon on October 12.
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German Book Prize 2011 Finalists Announced
The six finalists for the German Book Prize 2011 have been chosen. They are: Against the World by Jan Brandt; Das Wunderhorn by Michael Buselmeier; The Girl by Angelika Klüssendorf; Blumenberg by Sibylle Lewitscharoff; In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge; The Hurtress by Marlene Steeruwitz.
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PEN Center USA Announces 2011 Literary Award Winners
PEN Center USA, a literary nonprofit based in Beverly Hills, Calif., has announced the winners of the organization’s 2011 Literary Awards competition.
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Rona Jaffe Winners Announced
The winners of this year's Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, which awards a $25,000 prize to six female authors, have been named.
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Man Booker Shortlist Announced
Two debut novelists, Stephen Kelman and A.D. Miller, are among the six titles in contention for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The shortlist is dominated by independent publishers, though not featuring any of the smaller indies who featured on the 13-title long list.
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