The Sheikh Zayed Book Award reading panel has concluded its review of 3,151 submissions from 60 nations, a record influx of nominations. Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Bin Tamim: ‘A Literary and Artistic Inspiration’ With a total 3,151 submissions from 60 nations, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award‘s reading panel […]
Translation rights for the Booker’s 2022 winner reportedly have sold into 24 languages since ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Alemeida’ won. Jurors in the 2023 Booker Prize for Fiction competition are, on the upper row from left, Adjoa Andoh (image: Suki Dhanda); Esi Edugyan (image: Tamara Poppitt); and James Shapiro (image: Mary Cregan). On the
Nine newly announced translations of supported by the UAE’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award have taken six Arabic books into five languages. The stage for the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners’ ceremony in Abu Dhabi. Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Three Books Have Two Translations Each Among announcements made
The public is invited to propose names for the Booker’s Jan Pieńkowski-designed trophy, then vote on a shortlist. The 1969 trophy designed by Jan Pieńkowski is to be brought back into service by the Booker Prize Foundation. Image: Booker Prize Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Deadline for Submissions: January 27 Roughly 15 inches
Twenty-eight years after being established, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is to get a nonfiction sister award in the United Kingdom. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Mariiaplo By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Mosse: ‘Extraordinary Nonfiction Authors’ The nonprofit organization behind the Women’s Prize for Fiction in England—an awards program now almost 30 years old—the Women’s
The scientific committee’s deliberations precede the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s upcoming 17th-edition shortlist announcements. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award scientific committee meets in Abu Dhabi for the program’s 17th edition. Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Zayed Award Shortlists To Come in March As you’ll remember, in November, the Sheikh
On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Women’s Prize for Fiction in England names 16 novels to its £30,000 longlist. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Shortlist Set for April 26 England’s Women’s Prize for Fiction—perhaps best known for announcing one month ago its interest in creating a Women’s Prize
The Women’s Prize 2023 shortlisted books are called by the jury ‘ambitious, diverse, thoughtful, hard-hitting and emotionally engaging.’ Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Minchin: ‘A Glittering Showcase’ In the six-title shortlist released this morning (April 26) in London, the Women’s Prize for Fiction features three debut novelists: Louise Kennedy,
The American author Barbara Kingsolver has become the only writer to win the United Kingdom’s Women’s Prize for Fiction twice. Barbara Kingsolver at the Women’s Prize for Fiction awards program in London. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Brilliant and Visceral’ The Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead has won the American
It’s a great day for the Irish, as Ireland’s writers claim four of the 13 spots on the Booker Prize for Fiction’s newly announced longlist. Image: Booker Prize Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Shortlist is Expected on September 21 Ten of the 13 authors longlisted today (August 1) by the Booker Prize for
