Twenty writers from the United Kingdom and Ireland have been chosen from an initial pool of 708 Costa Book Award entries.
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles, Charles Yu Win 2020 US National Book Awards
Yu Miri and translator Morgan Giles win the 2020 National Book Awards category for translated literature, and Charles Yu wins for fiction.
The UK’s Women Poets’ Prize Names Its 2020 Winners
The second round of the Women Poets’ Prize ups its purse to £1,500 for each of three winners, an award that honors the late Rebecca Swift.
The UK’s Young Writer Award Names Its 2020 Shortlist
The quintet of books named to the UK Young Writer of the Year award shortlist this year includes memoir, novels, and poetry collections.
Canada’s CBC Poetry Prize Names Its Five 2020 Shortlisted Writers
The five shortlisted writers for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize have only a week to find out which of them will win.
As London Heads Into Lockdown, Good Cheer From Charkin: Chin Up
‘Those hours not spent commuting’ are on Richard Charkin’s list, as he tots up reasons for ‘a degree of optimism’ in book publishing.
‘Let’s Talk’ Program Opens Monday, Aligned with the Thessaloniki Book Fair
Frankfurter Buchmesse presents seminars on COVID-era bookselling, translation, and publishing, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
US National Book Awards: The 2020 Shortlisted Finalists
Eight of the 25 titles announced today are debut works in the shortlists for the 71st annual National Book Awards. Winners named November 18.
ALTA Names Its 2020 National Translation Awards Shortlists
The National Translation Awards shortlists include work from Italian, Russian, Chinese, Greek, Korean, Spanish, and Malay.
Words Without Borders in September: ‘Asian Peruvian’ Writing
As the term ‘Asian’ begins ‘to groan under the weight of its load’ of many cultures, Jennifer Shyue looks at Peruvian writers in translation.