The The Rona Jaffe Foundation announced the 2010 Writers' Award winners yesterday. Each winner receives $25,000.The winners were: Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams (nonfiction), Rachel Aviv (nonfiction), Sara Elizabeth Johnson (poetry), Alexandria Marzano-L...
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The finalists for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize were revealed today--six fiction writers and six non-fiction writers. Winners will receive a $10,000 honorarium, and runners-up will receive $1,000.The fiction category recognized Lucy Beckett, Ha J...
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Katha Politt has won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. She will be presented her award on September 19th at a public ceremony in San Fransisco, CA--joining fellow winners Amiri Baraka, Dave Eggers and Pamela Ushuk.Politt (pictured) ...
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The 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement will go to Geraldine Brooks--a $10,000 award.Brooks spent several years as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal covering the crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He...
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Journalist, novelist, and now, award-founder David Barnett has developed the Guardian's Wankh awards. The person who picks the smuttiest book title will be awarded a copy of Mr Standfast. Barnett is the sole judge of the Wankh winner.Barnett wrote:...
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This year's $5,000 Thurber Prize is down to three contenders. They are: Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask by Jancee Dunn, How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely, and Mennonite in a Little Black Dress...
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The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs announced the longlist for the 2010 Business Book of the Year--the award carries a £30,000 prize.The purpose behind the award is to give recognition to business books published within the last year which...
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This weekend, novelist Barbara O'Neal (pictured) won the Best Novel With Strong Romantic Elements award for for The Lost Recipe for Happiness at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention.The annual RITA competition celebrated a number of r...
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This morning Booker Prize judges announced the 13-author "Man Booker Dozen" longlist for the 2009 edition of the £50,000 literary prize.The judges sorted through 138 books to pick the prestigious longlist. The final list includes: Peter Car...
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Last week, Simon & Schuster awarded Addelin Ceballos the inaugural Simon & Schuster Book Scholarship. The $2,000 scholarship will help the incoming freshman pay for reading and textbooks when she attends Pace University for the next four years.Ceb...
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