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Restless Books’ Immigrant Writing Prize Turns 10
The recently renamed Kellman Prize, which got a new underwriter in September, has served as a launchpad for immigrant writers for nearly a decade.
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The Black List Teams with Blackstone on Manuscript Initiative
The initiative, which offers a $25,000 publishing deal for an unpublished manuscript, marks the Black List’s first collaboration with a book publisher since broadening its scope from screenplays to fiction last year.
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Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards
At the 76th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on November 19, many of the evening’s winners—including Rabih Alameddine, who won the award for Fiction, and Omar El Akkad, who won for Nonfiction—remarked on current events, including the crisis in Gaza and immigration crackdowns.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2025 Giller Prize
Thammavongsa’s novel Pick a Color took home what is largely considered Canada’s most prestigious award for fiction.
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David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’
The Hungarian-British novelist has won this year’s Booker Prize for his sixth work of fiction, which follows a Hungarian man who attempts to build a new life in the wake of his traumatic adolescence.
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New Fund to Grant $50 Million to Literary Arts Orgs
A coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation plans to award at least $50 million to nonprofit literary organizations over the next five years through the Literary Arts Fund, a new initiative headed up by Jennifer Benka.
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Booker Foundation Announces Children’s Prize
Marking the organization's first new prize announcement since 2005, the Children’s Booker Prize will be administered annually beginning in 2027 for a work of fiction aimed at readers ages eight to 12 and published in the U.K. or Ireland.
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37th Harvey Awards Highlight Indie Publishers
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath and Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn were among the top winners at this year’s ceremony honoring the best in comics, held October 10 at New York Comic Con.
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László Krasznahorkai Wins 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature
The Swedish Academy recognized the 71-year-old Hungarian author, who is published in the U.S. by New Directions, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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2025 National Book Award Finalists Announced
Omar El Akkad, Yiyun Li, Megha Majumdar, Karen Russell, Patricia Smith, and Bryan Washington are among the finalists for this year’s prizes, awarded in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
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