Posted on June 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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The 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, honoring the best work for young readers, have gone to I Know How to Draw an Owl (picture book), written by Hilary Horder Hippely and illustrated by Matt James; Everything We Never Had (fiction) by Randy Ribay; and Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown (nonfiction) by Candace Fleming (Book Riot).
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Vikas Adam, Kimberly Farr, and Hillary Huber have been selected as the 2025 class of the Golden Voices, an honor given to longtime, excellent audiobook narrators (Audiofile).
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Three publishers have teamed up to offer a new poetry prize — and publication — for collections translated into English; the biennial Poetry in Translation Prize will award $5,000 to the winning work's poet and translator, to be split equally (The Guardian).
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See the cover for and learn about Rainbow Rowell's upcoming new-adult romance, Cherry Baby, set to hit shelves April 14 (People).
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James Lloydovich Patterson, a Russian poet and writer whose only book to appear in English — Chronicle of the Left Hand — described his grandmother's life as a formerly enslaved sharecropper, died May 22 at age ninety-one (The New York Times).
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