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Robinson, Bolaño Among 2008 NBCC Award Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2008 awards at a well-attended event at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City Saturday night.
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NBA Finalists Take Teens Behind Their Books
For the 11th year running, the National Book Foundation held a National Book Awards Teen Press Conference, which allows the five nominees in the Young People’s Literature category to read for and field questions from their books’ audience—teenagers.
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Blundell Wins NBA in Young People’s Literature
The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature was given Wednesday night to Judy Blundell, for her novel What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic Press), a noirish coming-of-age mystery set just after World War II.
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Peter Matthiessen, Annette Gordon Reed Among National Book Award Winners
The 2008 National Book Awards ceremony was held Wednesday night at Cipriani on Wall Street in downtown New York City. Cipriani was a new location for the awards. Host Eric Bogosian opened the ceremony by noting that Barack Obama’s win in the Presidential election is good news for many, including those attending the awards ceremony because he “is a reader and a writer.” Obama’s election was, in fact, a recurring theme among the evening speakers.
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Amber Qureshi
Like most high-powered literary editors at major trade publishers, Amber Qureshi, a senior editor at Free Press, earned an undergraduate degree in advanced mathematics, specifically a branch called Algebraic Topology. Of course, she followed that up with the obligatory graduate work in Econometrics—in Japan.
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Celebrating Children's Book Week
As Children’s Book Council board member Simon Boughton greeted the crowd at Tuesday night’s gala event at the New York Times, “Happy Children’s Book Week!” And what a week it has shaped up to be. Children’s Book Week, traditionally celebrated in November, was moved to May for the first time this year, with many events throughout the week and a renewed energy for promoting the joys of reading to the nation’s young readers.
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NBCC Suggests Spring and Summer "Good Reads"
The third installment of the National Book Critics Circle's "Good Reads" list includes new books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Honor Moore and Marie Howe.
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Schubiger and Innocenti Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
A swedish author and an Italian illustrator were named the winners of this year's Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
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Young Lions Finalists Announced
The five authors up for this year's Young Lion's award--given annually by the New York Public Library to promising young writers--have been announced. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Library on April 28.
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Quill Awards Program Suspended
PW’s parent company, Reed Business Information, has announced plans to suspend support of the Quill Awards program.
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$100,000 Prize to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (HarperCollins/Ecco). The prize—administered by the Jewish Book Council--carries a $100,000 cash award.
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$100,000 Prize to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (HarperCollins/Ecco). The prize—administered by the Jewish Book Council--carries a $100,000 cash award.
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First-Ever Essence Literary Awards Celebrate African-American Writers
The inaugural Essence Literary Awards took place last Thursday. Among the winners were The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (Unbridled Books) and Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf). Terry McMillan received a lifetime achievement award and Bishop T.D. Jakes received a “President’s Award.”
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Coetzee, Sacks and Others Among NBCC's "Good Reads"
Following up and renaming this past fall's “Best Recommended List,” yesterday the NBCC launched a list of book recommendations now called “NBCC’s Good Reads.”
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Booksellers React to Top Children’s Prizes
The results are in, and this year’s roster of American Library Association awards yielded a number of surprises. Children’s booksellers shared their thoughts on the winners named in Monday’s Newbery, Caldecott and Printz announcements.
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Diaz, Oates, Danticat Among 2007 NBCC Finalists
The finalists for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award were announced on Saturday, January 12, at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Finalists include Junot Diaz, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat and Joan Acocella.
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The Year in Awards
If you got through the whole year without having to change into formal wear in the office restroom, here's a sampling of what you missed—other than the pigs in a blanket. (The rosters of winners for some of the more magnanimous prizes have been abridged.) • Newbery Medal • The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (S&S/Atheneum/Jackson) • Cal...
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NBCC Ethics By the numbers
57.3: Percentage of review editors who believe it is ethical to assign a review to an author acquaintance. 34.4: Percentage of review editors who believe it is acceptable for a reviewer to back out of writing a review to avoid negative criticism of a book. 34.4: Percentage of review editors who believe it is unacceptable for a reviewer to back out of writing a review to avoid negative criticism...
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NBCC Polls Members' Ethics
Sixty-four percent of accredited book reviewers feel that critics who write an unpaid blurb for a book should be banned from publishing a full review. And 76% of critics feel that if you haven't read a work cover to cover you shouldn't be critiquing it in print. These are just some of the findings of the NBCC's 2007 ethics survey, the first one the organization has done in 20 years.
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NBCC Launches Alternative to Bestseller Lists
In an attempt to provide an alternative to sales-driven bestsellers lists, the NBCC is launching a monthly list of recommendations compiled based on polls of well-known writers and critics, and NBCC members.
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