05/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
Hailey Leithauser has won the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award, presented by the Poetry Foundation. The award is designed to recognize an American poet of at least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection of poetry.
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
At a ceremony Monday night, Karen Russell won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia! (Knopf).
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 24th Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards, honoring excellence in publishing. The three finalists in each of the 54 categories were chosen from close to 1,300 entries, and one winner per category will be announced at the Benjamin Franklin Awards ceremony on Monday evening, June 4th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York city on the eve of BookExpo America 2012.
05/08/2012 @ 06:00AM
The fifth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were awarded Monday evening at a charity gala in New York City, kicking off the 93rd annual Children’s Book Week. Jarrett J. Krosoczka hosted the event, at which Jeff Kinney was named Author of the Year, and Brian Selznick named Illustrator of the Year.
05/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
The board of the National Book Foundation has awarded its fourth annual Innovations in Reading Prizes to five individuals and organizations for "demonstrating passion, creativity, dedication, and leadership in the service of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading."
05/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
Author and biologist Carl Safina has won the 2012 Orion Book Award for The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Holt), in recognition of the book’s success in addressing the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought-provoking, and engaging manner.
04/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
Ragip Zarakolu, a voice for free expression in Turkey, has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award.
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
The National Book Foundation has issued entry forms and guidelines for the 2012 National Book Awards. The organization has also released the names of the 20 judges who will be choosing the award winners of the four prizes: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.
04/24/2012 @ 12:00AM
Winners included Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers and Carl Adamshick's Curses and Wishes.
04/23/2012 @ 12:00AM
Jennifer New's Dan Eldon: Safari is a Way of Life, published by Chronicle Books, has won the Judges Choice award as part of the 2012 PubWest Book Design Awards.
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