The finalists of the 2016 National Book Awards have been announced, and include Colson Whitehead, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Peter Gizzi. Winners will be named at a ceremony in New York City on November 16. Here, a list of the nominees and a look at PW’s complete coverage of their work, including reviews, interviews, and […]
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The National Book Foundation has announced the Finalists for the 2016 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. The Winners will be announced on November 16 at the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner. Source: National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards, www.nationalbook.org
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The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced today. Source: Man Booker Prize announces 2016 longlist | The Man Booker Prizes
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Longlist of finalists for the 2016 First Novel Prize Source: 2016 First Novel Prize Longlist
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On Wednesday 8th June 2016 at the Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London, Irish author Lisa McInerney was announced the winner of the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Glorious Heresies. Source: BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction » Announcing the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Books on the short list.
South Korean author Han Kang won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize on Monday for “The Vegetarian,” a novel about a “completely unremarkable” woman, to use the book’s description, who subverts societal norms including, in a nod to the title, giving up eating meat. Source: Man Booker International Prize goes to ‘The Vegetarian’ – CNN.com
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The Nebula Awards — voted on by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy — were given out in Chicago yesterday, and every prose award went to a woman (the film award went to the writers of feminist action film Mad Max: Fury Road). Source: Nebula
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In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. Source: The Shirley Jackson Awards » 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees
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The winners of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 18, in a ceremony marking the centennial of the awards.In fiction, Viet Thanh Nguyen won for The Sympathizer (Grove Press), which the judges called “a layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a ‘man of two minds’—and two countries, Vietnam and
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Novels by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante, Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk and a political novel banned in mainland China have all been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International prize, celebrating the finest in global fiction translated to English. The 13-book longlist was whittled down from 155 and consists of authors from 12 countries,
