Poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel in Literature

Posted on 10/08/2020 at 08:08 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Poet Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the first American woman to do so...

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Black authors take top two prizes at British Book Awards

Posted on 06/30/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two authors made history at the British Book Awards last night. Candice Carty-Williams became the first Black author to take...

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Booker Prize Foundation eliminates honorary titles and roles

Posted on 06/24/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

UPDATE: The Booker Prize Foundation announced today that it was eliminating all honorary roles and titles, based on public criticism...

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Trade group criticizes Amazon's donation to bookstore charity

Posted on 04/27/2020 at 01:03 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Maybe there was a reason Amazon didn’t seek public acknowledgment of its donation to a bookstore charity. A day after...

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Bookstore charity identifies big donor as Amazon

Posted on 04/24/2020 at 11:47 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No country’s bookstores have been immune to the financial pressures of the coronavirus outbreak. So Britain’s shops weren’t alone in...

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Indie publisher releases Woody Allen's "Apropos of Nothing"

Posted on 03/23/2020 at 12:47 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here’s a blast from the past: Woody Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, has not only found a publisher, but has...

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David Lagercrantz is writing a "modern Sherlock Holmes" series

Posted on 03/17/2020 at 08:29 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Lagercrantz is stepping away from Lisbeth Salander and toward Sherlock Holmes. Lagercrantz, who has continued the Millennium series after...

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Film and TV rights to Maggie O’Farrell’s "Hamnet" are already snapped up

Posted on 03/09/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet hasn’t even reached readers yet, but it’s already found a place on prize longlists and, possibly, in...

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Survivor's stepson is planning legal action over "Cilka's Journey"

Posted on 02/24/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris could face legal action from the stepson of the woman who inspired one...

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British Book Awards wants help picking the 30 from 30 winner

Posted on 02/21/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The British Book Awards, as we reported last week, are celebrating thirty years of existence by celebrating thirty books …...

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