Sentences with phrase «awards for fiction»

New York, New York — March 7, 2018 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

The British Book Industry Awards will take place on Monday 9th May at Grosvenor House in central London with 24 categories, including new awards for fiction, children's, non-fiction and début titles — from which an overall Book of the Year will be selected.

Another good resource for contests is the Poets & Writers website, which includes an extensive list of national contests, fellowships, and awards for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder» sNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

How do you think it fits in — or stands out from — the existing awards for fiction and nonfiction?

Her paranormal thriller entitled The Lie won the GOLD medal in the 2013 Illumination Book Awards for fiction / suspense and is also in production for a feature film entitled Foreseen.

He has more than 20 traditionally published works to his name and a catalog of accolades — including two Faulkner Awards for Fiction.

Along with these were the equally significant audience awards for fiction feature, documentary, short film, and web series.

The «Fakers» at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction!

Amy Bloom, author of two New York Times best - sellers and three collections of short stories, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction.

Jesmyn Ward, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction for her book Salvage the Bones, poses at the National Book Awards Wednesday night.

Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film: «The Keeping Hours,» directed by Karen Moncrieff.

Norton's screenplay was inspired by Jonathan Lethem's novel «Motherless Brooklyn,» which won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Yet Chazelle was able to raise enough money for an 18 - minute short that went to Sundance in 2013 where it won the jury award for fiction.

Fittingly enough, John Edgar Wideman has twice won the Faulkner award for fiction.

Besides winning the Orange Prize and PEN / Faulkner Award for her fiction, Ann Patchett has also been honored with the Nashville Public Library Literary Award.

His first collection, Last Days of the Dog - Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his As in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty has just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

The five nominees for the 2012 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction were announced yesterday.

Her second novel, The World to Come, published by W.W. Norton in 2006, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the 2007 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, was selected as an Editors» Choice in The New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best Books of 2006 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and has been translated into eleven languages...

If you are looking for a new book to read perhaps the five finalists for the 2015 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction might do the trick.

The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, which completes The Border Trilogy.

• Congrats to Karen Joy Fowler for winning the 2014 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves!

The winner will be announced on April 7th, and the 35th Annual PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Dinner will be held on Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Folger... [Read more...]

Redeployment By Phil Klay Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143126829 This riveting story collection by an Iraq War veteran captured the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.

Pullinger is the Canadian author of The Mistress of Nothing (which won her the country's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction).

December's inaugural list includes, for instance, Canadian authors Margaret Atwood, David Bezmozgis, Ann - Marie MacDonald, Kathleen Reichs, Peter Robinson, Carrie Snyder, Miriam Toews, as well as Sean Michaels and Thomas King, winners of this year's Scotiabank Giller and Governor - General's Literary Award for Fiction respectively.

Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

He has won numerous prizes both in the US and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize.

I was glad to see that Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for Fiction.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

A Complicated Kindness, was a Giller Prize Finalist and won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.

While there he sold his first novel and completed his second, Gig, which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award for Fiction.

Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1999 and also garnered the Macalan Gold Dagger for crime fiction.

Abby noted last week that among a field of literary big shots in the finalist pool for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction, Lorraine M. López stuck out as a pleasant surprise.

In 2010 we published a book called The Beads of Lapis Lazuli, by Doris Kenney Marcotte, which went on to win a 2011 EVVY Award for Fiction and become a finalist for our contest.

She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction.

He has thrice won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The... (more)

A testament to his storytelling, the collection won the Mary McCarthy Award in Short Fiction and the Asian American Literary Award for fiction.

Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2018 PEN / Hemingway Award, and the 2017 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.

Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; I See You Everywhere, winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award; and The Widower's... (more)

She has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, and numerous other awards.

• The 2013 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists were announced earlier this week: Threats by Amelia Gray, Kind One by Laird Hunt, Hold It»Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson, Watergate by Thomas Mallon, and Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Ward, whose novel Salvage the Bones won the 2011 National Book Award for fiction, now offers a memoir about the deaths of several beloved men in her life.

The only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels, John has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller's Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature.

She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and the 2016 Anisfield - Wolf Award for Fiction.

With her debut novel, The Daughters — the story of a soprano whose voice is stolen by a curse, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction — Celt introduced herself as a notable writer with a hauntingly lyrical voice.

Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction.

For those prior works she has won an impressive string of accolades, including the 2006 Hawthornden Prize, as well as both the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, both of which went to the book that led to Bring Up the Bodies, entitled Wolf Hall.

A critically acclaimed international best seller that was translated into 19 languages, it was short - listed for the Giller Prize, and won the People's Choice Award and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year.