The Parliamentary Awards, the only book award known to be voted on by parliamentarians, has its newest trio of winning titles in the UK.
Awards: The UK’s Parliamentary Book Awards’ Shortlist: Purposefully Political
The Parliamentary Book Awards, in which political writing is the point, have issued a new and timely shortlist in London.
Awards: Sally J. Morgan Wins the UK’s £10,000 Portico Prize
The biennial Portico Prize, focused on ‘the spirit of the North’ of England, names a Yorkshire native, Sally J. Morgan, its latest winner.
Russian Court Closes Memorial International, 2021 Michalski Prize Winner
In what France’s foreign minister terms ‘a terrible loss,’ Moscow’s high court closes the organization and publisher Memorial International.
An Exposé of the ‘Ostarbeiter’ Wins Switzerland’s 50,000-Franc Jan Michalski Prize
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature honors Georgia Thomson’s new translation of the title about East European victims of Nazi forced labor.
Stephanie Barrouillet at Frankfurt: An Outlook on Children’s Books
‘The buzz and energy’ around the in-person Frankfurter Buchmesse, says Stephanie Barrouillet, ‘is needed.’
English PEN Names a New Round of ‘PEN Translates’ Award Grants
PEN Translates’ new grants include books originating in Arabic, Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Irish, Japanese, and Tibetan.
‘In the Dream House’: Carmen Maria Machado Wins the Rathbones Folio Prize
Author Carmen Maria Machado wins the Rathbones Folio Prize, which honors influential voices from American LGBTQ literature.
NPD: 2020 Was the US’ Bestselling Year for Print in a Decade
One-third of 2020 growth in US print book sales was driven by juvenile fiction, NPD BookScan reports, with overall sales of 751 million units.
Richard Charkin: ‘Thank Goodness for the Rule-Breakers’
‘Maybe there are lessons to be learned from rule-breaking,’ writes Richard Charkin, with a new memoir as his case in point.