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2025 Booker Prize Longlist Announced
This year’s longlist comprises 13 novels by authors representing nine different nationalities. Among the longlisted titles are Susan Choi’s Flashlight and Katie Kitamura’s Audition.
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Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards
Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts, Joe Sacco’s The War on Gaza, and Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham’s Lunar New Year Love Story won big at the 37th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con.
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The Novelry Offers $100,000 Prize to Break Publishing Barriers
The Novelry, an online creative writing school founded by author Louise Dean, has launched the Next Big Story competition, a $100,000 prize aimed at reaching writers outside traditional publishing circles.
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2025 American Manga Award Nominees Announced
Anime NYC and Japan Society have announced the 35 nominees for the second annual American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 21.
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Young Lions Fiction Award Celebrates 25 Years
The annual award, founded in 2001 and presented by the New York Public Library’s Young Lions, a membership organization for library supporters in their 20s and 30s, celebrates works of fiction by authors ages 35 and younger. At a ceremony last night at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, this year’s prize went to Alexander Sammartino’s Last Acts.
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‘AudioFile’ Magazine Announces 2025 Golden Voice Award Winners
AudioFile has named the three winners of its annual Golden Voice awards, which honors voice actors who have made significant contributions to audiobook publishing. The recipients are Hillary Huber, Vikas Adam, and Kimberly Farr.
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‘Heart Lamp’ Wins 2025 International Booker Prize
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi and published by And Other Stories, is the first short story collection and first book originally written in Kannada to win the £50,000 prize, which is split equally between the author and translator.
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Macmillan CEO Jon Yaged: Censorship ‘Puts Us On a Path to Mediocrity’
At this year’s PEN America Literary Gala, Macmillan Publishers CEO Jon Yaged, the recipient of PEN’s annual Business Visionary Award, took aim at the efforts to censor free expression that have increasingly defined American culture over the past several years.
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PEN America Literary Awards Return After a Tumultuous Year
While it was largely business as usual following the cancelation of last year’s ceremony, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award was not conferred for a second year in a row due to nominee withdrawals. The $75,000 purse was donated to the nonprofits Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Palestine Legal.
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Percival Everett, Tessa Hulls Among 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Everett’s novel ‘James’ and Hulls’s graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’ were among the seven books to receive this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced May 5.
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