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Egan, Wilkerson Among NBCC Winners
The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book awards Thursday evening in a ceremony at the New School in New York City. The fiction winner was Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (Knopf); the nonfiction winner was Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House); and the biography winner was Sarah Bakewell, who wrote How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Other Press).
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APA Announces Audie Finalists
The Audio Publishers Association has announced its 2011 Audies nominees. More than 1,100 titles entered the competition this year, breaking last year’s record.
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Foran Wins Taylor Prize
Author and journalist Charles Foran has won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for his biography of Canadian literary lion Mordecai Richler.
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'Matterhorn' Wins Colby Award
Karl Marlantes’s novel inspired by his experiences serving in Vietnam, Matterhorn (Atlantic Monthly), which took him more than 30 years to write, has won this year’s William E. Colby Award. The $5,000 prize is named for the late Ambassador and former CIA director and recognizes a debut novel or nonfiction book that has made a significant contribution to the public’s understanding of intelligence operations, military history, or international affairs.
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Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction Calls for Entries
The University of Alabama School of Law and The ABA Journal are requesting entries for the first annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The prize will be awarded annually to a published book-length work of fiction that best exemplifies the role of lawyers in society, and their power to effect change.
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'Hello? It's the ALA Calling': Stead and Vanderpool on Winning the Big Prize
When you win a Newbery or a Caldecott Medal, you find out in an early morning phone call—and your life is changed in an instant. Both Erin Stead and Clare Vanderpool received that call this past Monday morning; we spoke with both of them to find out where they were when the phone rang, what their reactions were, and what they did next.
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Midwesterners Sweep Top Awards
Those interested in the American Library Association's youth media awards, announced Monday morning, have probably already noticed that Clare Vanderpool, this year's Newbery Medalist, is a debut novelist, and that Erin Stead, this year's Caldecott Medalist, is a debut book illustrator. What’s also unusual about this year's crop of award recipients is how many of them don’t live on either coast. In fact, Midwestern authors and illustrators literally swept the most prestigious of the ALA prizes this year, winning both the Newbery and the Caldecott Medals, as well as the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award.
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No 'Today Show' for Vanderpool or Stead
It's become a tradition that, the day after the Youth Media awards are announced at ALA's midwinter meeting, the Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners are interviewed live on the Today Show. But for the first time in 11 years, there was no special coverage featuring the newly minted Medalists.
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Vanderpool, Stead, Bacigalupi Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Clare Vanderpool has won the 2011 Newbery Medal for Moon Over Manifest (Delacorte), edited by Michelle Poploff. Erin E. Stead has won the 2011 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Brook/Porter), written by Philip C. Stead, edited by Neal Porter. And Paolo Bacigalupi has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Ship Breaker (Little, Brown), edited by Jennifer Hunt. The awards were announced Monday morning at the American Library Association’s midwinter conference in San Diego.
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Oprah Picks 'Great Expectations,' 'Tale of Two Cities'
Oprah Winfrey went "old school"--her words--in selecting two 19th century novels for her next Oprah’s Book Club pick. Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, both by English master novelist Charles Dickens, made Oprah’s reading list. On her Monday show, Oprah urged her audience to read Dickens over the holidays, confessing she had never read him. The novels are available from a number of publishers. For book club purposes, Penguin had produced a paperback edition containing both books.
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Koliadina Wins Russian Booker
The Flower Cross, a novel written in old Russian language by Elena Koliadina--which was published exclusively online--has won the 19th Russian Booker Prize and 600,000 rubles (about $19,200) in prize money. Russia's biggest publisher, Publisher AST, will publish a print edition of the book this month.
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Melville House Partners with Shakespeare and Company for Novella Prize
Indie publisher Melville House will publish the winner of the first Paris Literary Prize competition, sponsored by the historic Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris and the de Groot Foundation. The competition seeks submissions of 20,000-30,000 works of fiction by December 18.
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New Poetry Prize in Canada Focuses on Recitation
Last week, Canada's unofficial patron of poetry, Scott Griffin, unveiled a new effort to bring more poetry into the minds and everyday lives of Canadians. The founder of the $200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize launched a high school poetry recitation competition that is beginning as a pilot project in 12 Ontario high schools. It is intended to extend to Quebec schools next year and across the country after that.
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Amazon and Penguin Announce Fourth Novel Award Competition
Amazon.com and Penguin Group have announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Due to the popularity of the additional young adult category in 2010, the competition will again award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best YA novel. Each grand prize winner will be published by Penguin Group. The 2011 competition will again be open to unpublished and self-published novels.
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2010 National Book Awards
At least for one evening the industry can laugh and put aside questions about gender equity and even the future of print ("we're here to celebrate the book," Borowitz said with mock solemnity, "and its bastard cousin the e-book") and raise a toast to books, authors, and reading.
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Erskine Wins NBA in Young People's Literature
Kathryn Erskine was filled with gratitude as she stepped up to the podium on Wednesday night to claim the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, for her novel Mockingbird (Philomel), about a 10-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome.
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Kelley, Everett, Dove, Madhubuti Win Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards
Authors Robin D.G. Kelley, Percival Everett, Haki Madhubuti and Rita Dove were the winners at the 9th annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, held last night in Washington D.C. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards are presented annually to authors of African descent for the best works in fiction, nonfiction and poetry in the previous year.
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Gaspereau Press Swamped as Skibsrud Wins Giller
Canada's most prestigious and richest fiction prize, the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, was awarded last night to the debut novel The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud, published by Gaspereau Press. The house is so small and its production so dedicated to artisanal quality that the book will likely not be available in sufficient numbers to immediately satisfy the big bump in demand that a Giller win creates.
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PW's Best Adult and Kids' Books of 2010
Today, PW launched its best books of 2010 in two separate lists: 100 adult books and another 40 kids books. We think you'll like the lists and find enough to keep your reading until we compile our 2011 lists!
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PW's Best Children's Books 2010
We scoured the past year's books for children and teenagers and selected the very best. This year we have 40 Best Books (plus one for good measure), covering our favorite picture books, novels, and nonfiction. From babies who take over upon arrival and lizards learning about friendship and art in the desert, to twins who are not identical in every way and dystopian worlds that fall apart in almost every way conceivable, 2010 offered something for everyone.
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