The Guardian has announced the shortlist for its annual award for the best first book. This year’s list includes former New York Times reporter Amy Waldman’s novel The Submission and Columbia University professor Siddhartha Mukherjee’s history of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, which came out in the U.S. last year and has already won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Read More
The finalists for the National Book Awards have been named. From 1,223 books submitted for the awards in 2011, the judges must name only five in each category.
Unlike the Pulitzer prize, the NBA judges are practitioners of the work they judge: only fiction writers decide fiction and only poets decide poets. This year’s fiction Read More
The winners of the 2011 PEN literary awards have been announced. It’s an exciting list that passes up some authors who have already taken home loads of prizes this year for some new voices, and a good year all around for women and indie publishers.
The prize for a work of debut fiction will Read More
The National Book Critics Circle announced their nominees for end of the year awards on Saturday, and tonight you can celebrate! On the NBCC blog Critical Mass, John Freeman invites the public to a ‘low-key, low-budget(!)’ wine reception at Housing Works to toast the list and some of the nominees, who Read More
