The Women’s Prize for Fiction in London releases its 16-book longlist, which includes nine debut publications. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Shortlist Is Expected on April 2 You’re not wrong in feeling that you just heard from the Women’s Prize in the United Kingdom. You did. That was […]
To ‘survey this year’s harvest,’ as jury chair Neil MacGregor puts it, the Booker Foundation announces its 2022 jurors. Neil MacGregor, the author and cultural historian who is international adviser to the J. Paul Getty Foundation in Los Angeles and Mumbai’s CSMVS Museum, chairs the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction jury. Image: Booker Prize Foundation
On International Women’s Day, the Women’s Prize for Fiction names 16 novels to its £30,000 longlist. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: International Women’s Day: ‘The Female Publisher’ Sponsors This Year: Baileys and Audible Calling itself “the greatest international celebration of women’s creativity,” the United Kingdom’s Women’s Prize
The 2022 shortlist for the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction is headlined by work of Ruth Ozeki, Elif Shafak, and Louise Erdrich. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Two of Six Shortlisted Publishers are Independent As Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, the longlist for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction
The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award will be honored in May at a ceremony parallel to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The late Prof. Jaroslav Stetkevych and his wife Prof. Suzanne Stetkevych cross the stage during the 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi to accept their joint award as
Ruth Ozeki, based in Massachusetts, wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel, ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness.’ Ruth Ozeki at the Women’s Prize for Fiction award ceremony in London. The ‘Bessie’ is the Grizel Niven limited-edition bronze presented to winners of the prize, along with £30,000. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction
The 2022 Booker Prize longlist comprises writings from the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka. Image: The Booker Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: The UK’s Booker Prize for Fiction Looks to Boost Social Media With a Book Club Contest and Nielsen BookData Opens a New Industry-Wide 10
Looking forward to the ‘experience the new members will bring,’ Dr. Ali Bin Tamim names the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s new committee. At the 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners’ ceremony at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Four New Scientific Committee Members Dr. Ali Bin Tamim today
Half the shortlisted books for the £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction are from independent publishers. The winner will be known October 17. Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlisted authors are, upper row from left, NoViolet Bulawayo (image: NyeLynTho); Percival Everett (image: Nacho Goberna); and Alan Garner (image: David Heke). And on the lower row, from
A tale of a war photographer’s post-death search for truth in Sri Lanka’s violence wins the UK’s Booker Prize for Fiction. Camilla, the queen consort, meets winning author Shehan Karunatilaka at the Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony at London’s Roundabout. Image: Booker Prize Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Also today: Kim de l’Horizon
