For more than 50 years a bookseller at City Lights, San Francisco’s Paul Yamazaki is the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award winner.
Ukraine: ‘Chytomo’ Opens New Award for Ukrainian Publishing
Ukraine’s ‘Chytomo’ opens a new award with support from Germany’s ministry of culture, Frankfurter Buchmesse, and the Börsenverein.
In London, Schroders Backs the Business Book of the Year Award
The Financial Times is joined this year by Schroders, with added support from Nikkei, in the £30,000 Business Book of the Year award.
Winners Honored in the Society of Authors’ 2023 Awards
Thirty writers, poets, and illustrators have been named in this year’s Society of Author awards program at Southwark Cathedral.
CLMP’s Ninth Annual ‘Firecracker Awards’: Five Categories in 2023
The 2023 ‘Firecracker Awards’ announced this month by CLMP include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary magazines.
Canada’s New Weston International Award Goes to Robert MacFarlane
The CA$75,000 Weston International Award honors author Robert MacFarlane for career achievement in nonfiction.
Jennifer Homans Wins Biographers International’s Plutarch Award
The Biographers International Organization’s 2023 Plutarch Award goes to Jennifer Homans’ biography of modern ballet icon George Balanchine.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Adds New Category, Opens Submissions
Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award adds an ‘Editing of Arabic Manuscripts’ category as it opens a new round of submissions.
Turkish Publishers’ ‘Freedom of Thought and Expression’ Award
The Turkish Publishers Association honors a house fighting seven cases of effective bans on books considered ‘harmful to minors.’
At Abu Dhabi: The 2023 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Ceremony
The Egyptian composer and musician Omar Khairat, is probably the best known of the winners of the 17th edition of the award program.