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National Book Foundation Announces Entry Guidelines and Judges for 2010 Awards
The National Book Foundation has made entry guidelines for the 2010 National Book Awards available, by request, to publishers. It has also announced the names of the 20 writers who will judge the awards.
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Christian Book Award Winners Announced
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association announced the winners of its 2010 Christian Book Awards on Monday. The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns (Thomas Nelson) took the prize for 2010 Christian book of the year, and Watch Over Me by Christa Parrish (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group) won for fiction.
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A Good Night for Minotaur at the Edgars
Minotaur, the mystery imprint of St. Martin's Press, won the two top categories at the Mystery Writers of America's 64th annual Edgar Awards dinner held last night at Manhattan's Grand Hyatt Hotel: Stephanie Pintoff for In the Shadow of Gotham (Best First Novel by an American Author) and John Hart for The Last Child (Best Novel). Another Minotaur author, S.J. Bolton, received the Mary Higgins Clark Award for Awakening, presented the night before at the editors and agents party.
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2010 Pulitzer Winners Announced; Literary Indie Takes Top Honor in Fiction
The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded with Paul Harding winning in the Fiction category for Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press), a debut novel set in New England about a dying clock repairman who revisits his life on his deathbed.
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David Almond, Jutta Bauer Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
The 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the most prestigious international award for children's books, has been given to British author David Almond and German illustrator Jutta Bauer. The award was announced Tuesday afternoon at the Bologna Book Fair.
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Mantel, Holmes, Biss Among 2009
National Book Critics Circle WinnersWolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's fictional recreation of the early
life of 16th-century English statesman Thomas Cromwell; Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes' vivid study of the beginnings of science
in the Romantic Age; and Notes from No Man's Land, Eula Biss's collection of critical essays on
American life, were among the winners at the 2009 National Book Critics Circle
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Mueenuddin Wins $20K Story Prize
Pakistani-American author Daniyal Mueenuddin has been awarded the $20,000 Story Prize for his collection of connected short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, published by W. W. Norton.
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NBCC Names Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its book awards on Saturday at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York. Making the shortlist for fiction were Wolf Hall (Holt) by Hilary Mantel (who won this year's Man Booker Award), as well as American Salvage, a collection of stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell published by Wayne State University Press, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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When the ALA Calls: Stead and Pinkney on Winning the Big Prize
When you win a Newbery or a Caldecott Medal, you find out in a phone call — usually very early in the morning—and then your life is instantly changed. Both Rebecca Stead and Jerry Pinkney got recently that phone call; we spoke with both of them to find out where they were when the phone rang, what their reactions were, and what came next.
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Who Will Win the Big Awards? Scanning the Blogs
Ah, January 2010. New year, new decade—and the last chance to lay odds on which books from 2009 will be slapped with the gold and silver seals that come with the annual awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, the Printz Award, and all the other prestigious prizes handed out by the ALA's ASLC and YALSA divisions next Monday. A tour of various book- and librarian-centric Web sites, blogs and listservs turns up countless confident souls eager to champion their favorite titles...
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NY Center for Independent Publishing Honors Epstein
The New York Center for Independent Publishing will honor Jason Epstein with its Poor Richard Award on January 21. Epstein, who created Anchor Books in 1952, helped establish the trade paperback format, cofounded the New York Review of Books, created the Library of America, and served as editorial director of Random House, most recently published Eating: A Memoir in October 2009.
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Random Pushes Up Paperback Release of NBA-Winning 'Great World'
Random House has pushed up the paperback publication of last week’s National Book Award winner for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. The trade paperback edition was originally slated for next spring but will now go on sale December 4 with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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The 2009 National Book Awards
The 2009 National Book Awards ceremony returned to Cipriani Wall Street in downtown Manhattan November 18 for the second year, and the place is starting to feel like home. While there was talk of e-books, war and recession, having the inimitable Gore Vidal on hand—he won a National Book Award for nonfiction in 1993—to receive this year's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Ameri...
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Hoose Wins NBA in Young People's Literature
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature was given Wednesday night to Phillip Hoose, for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (FSG/Kroupa), a true-life account of the 15-year-old African-American girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Hoose walked to the podium with Colvin, and in accepting his medal, called the honor "unreal." He began by thanking his "brilliant" editor, Melanie Kroupa...
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Colum McCann, Phillip Hoose Among National Book Award Winners
Novelist Colum McCann won the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin (Random House); Gore Vidal (awarded the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters) was rambling, witty and profound as he recounted his life; and master of ceremonies, humorist Andy Borowitz, sent everyone home at 10:45 p.m. with a crack about Sarah Palin’s new memoir, Going Rogue, being an early candidate for the 2010 NBA fiction prize.
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Five Authors (and a Surprise Guest) at the NBA Teen Press Conference
During his introductory speech at the 12th annual National Book Foundation's Teen Press Conference, held this past Tuesday, host Jon Scieszka noted that the "crazy collection of writers and illustrators" that make up this year's National Book Award finalists in the Young People's Literature category offered "absolutely something for everyone"; be it social activism, history, or "lots of kissing."
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Veteran Journalist Wins Canada’s Giller Prize
This year’s winner of the richest prize for fiction in Canada, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is veteran journalist and author Linden MacIntyre for his second novel The Bishop’s Man published by Random House Canada.
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Best Books of 2009
It's almost Thanksgiving, which is the beginning of the end of another year, and for us at PW that means our annual best books list. From more than 50,000 volumes, we valiantly set out to choose 100, and this year we've upped the ante with a top 10 list.
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Wayne State in Fourth Printing for NBA Finalist 'American Salvage'
When the National Book Award finalists were announced last Wednesday, Wayne State University Press was the only small publisher represented in the fiction category, with Bonnie Jo Campbell's American Salvage. It also marked the first time one of the press’ authors was nominated for the award.
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YA or Not YA?: 'Stitches' Gets NBA Nomination
On Wednesday, Caldecott Medalist David Small’s graphic novel-style memoir, Stitches, became a 2009 National Book Award finalist in the Young People’s Literature category—which has led to some discussion and debate, along with the usual congratulations.
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