The United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, and Canada are represented in the Booker Prize for Fiction’s 2023 shortlist. Image: Booker Prize Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Edugyan: ‘A Kind of Relentless Truth-Telling’ A group of six writers are getting their first shortlistings from the Booker Prize for Fiction in London this evening (September […]
‘Prophet Song,’ Irish author Paul Lynch’s fifth novel, is a study in contemporary literary intensity, winning the Booker Prize for Fiction. Paul Lynch, author of ‘Prophet Song,’ the 2023 Booker Prize for Fiction winner. Image: The Booker Foundation, David Parry By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Lynch: ‘Partly an Attempt at Radical Empathy’ There was
The Women’s Prize Trust in the United Kingdom releases the first 16-title longlist in its new Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Image: Woman’s Prize Trust By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘A Revelation and a Joy’ As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the United Kingdom’s Women’s Prize Trust, which operates the Women’s Prize for Fiction announced a year
Eight of the 16 longlisted novels in the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction are their authors’ debut publications, now in competition. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Shortlist Is Due Out on April 24 Now in its 29th year, the United Kingdom’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has overnight (March
New this year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction issues its first six-title shortlist of books that explore art, history, technology, and more. Image: Women’s Prize Trust By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Profile Books Is the One Independent House on the List The springtime deluge of book and publishing contest news continues, today (March 27)
The ‘Encore’ contest for second novels has been administered by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature since 2016. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson £10,000 to the Winner In the United Kingdom, the Royal Society of Literature—often referencing itself as the oblique “RSL”—has a specific award for second novels. The premise of this particular
The winner of the RSL’s Encore award, Isabella Hammad, says that it’s in writing a second novel that ‘a writer really becomes a writer.’ By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Political Is Always Human’ A mighty book contest machine is the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature. In a book publishing market bristling with
Two titles on the Booker Prize longlist are from independent houses, and the 2024 list includes a Dutch and a Native American writer. Image: Booker Prize Foundation, Tom Pilston By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson De Waal: ‘Urgent, Resonant Books’ Announced this morning (July 30) in London, the Booker Prize for Fiction includes three novelists’
In its 55th year, the United Kingdom’s Booker Prize for Fiction names its first shortlist to include a Dutch author’s work. Image: Booker Prize Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Winner Is To Be Named on November 12 Announced this evening (September 16) at Somerset House’s Portico Rooms in London, the six-title Booker
