"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" is the B&N Book of the Year

Posted on 12/06/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy, has been chosen as Barnes & Noble's inaugural...

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Tagged As: Awards, Barnes & Noble / Nook

Controversial Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke criticizes the media

Posted on 12/06/2019 at 09:28 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Peter Handke, the controversial winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has broken his media silence to criticize...

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Tagged As: Awards, Politics

BBC apologizes for only mentioning 1 Booker Prize winner by name

Posted on 12/04/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The dual Booker Prize continues to make waves in the media world. This time, it’s because of a BBC broadcaster...

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Tagged As: Awards, Diversity, Scandal

2 authors receive the Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Posted on 12/03/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Literary Review, in a nod to other more prestigious prizes that were shared among multiple winners, has given its...

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Tagged As: Awards, The Guardian

2 members of Nobel committee resign

Posted on 12/02/2019 at 03:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

NOTE: Updated December 6 with comments from Gun-Britt Sundström. Two members of the Nobel Prize in Literature oversight committee have...

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Tagged As: Awards, Scandal, The Guardian

The oddest book title of 2019: "The Dirt Hole and its Variations"

Posted on 12/02/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Perhaps you would appreciate book news that doesn’t necessarily drive you to borrow or buy. If that’s the case, then...

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Tagged As: Awards, Just for fun

Award winners and runners-up choose the best books of 2019

Posted on 12/02/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Who better to choose the year’s outstanding books than authors who were shortlisted for — or won — literary prizes?...

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Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, The Guardian

Here are the names (but not excerpts) of the Bad Sex in Fiction nominees

Posted on 11/27/2019 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

One more awards post for today: the shortlist for the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction (dis)honor came out today....

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Tagged As: Awards, The Guardian

Irish author Edna O’Brien receives prize seen as possible Nobel preview

Posted on 11/27/2019 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We’re nearly a year away from the next Nobel Prize for Literature, but there may already be a front-runner for...

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Tagged As: Awards, The Guardian, Women in literature

Congratulations to the 2019 National Book Award winners!

Posted on 11/21/2019 at 07:09 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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The National Book Foundation handed out the 2019 National Book Awards last night. The following five books emerged from a...

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Tagged As: Awards, Children's literature, Literature in translation, Nonfiction, Poetry