Sentences with phrase «fiction prize for»

On Sunday night, at the RUSA Book and Media Awards held during ALA's Midwinter Meeting, Colson Whitehead won the fiction prize for The Underground Railroad (PRH / Doubleday; RH Audio / BOT; OverDrive Sample) and Matthew Desmond won the nonfiction prize for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (PRH / Crown; RH Audio / BOT; OverDrive Sample).

Malcolm Gladwell, who recorded the audio version of his David and Goliath, won the award for nonfiction and Stephen King won the Fiction prize for Doctor Sleep a sequel to The Shining.

Not exact matches

The James Tiptree Jr. literary prize for science fiction or fantasy published during 2014 that expands or explores our understanding of gender was announced over the Easter weekend.

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Some compete for the storied Palme d'Or, the prize won in past years by, among others, «Taxi Driver,» «Pulp Fiction,» «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days» and last year's winner, and eventual Academy Award honoree, «Amour.»

As far as other Pulitzer news, I admit that I was even more excited about the finalists for the fiction prize, because both novels are very special to me — two of my favorite reads of 2010, in fact.

This may be Cate Kennedy's first collection, but she's won prizes for her short fiction since 1994.

Goldstein has served as a judge for many book prizes, including the Koret International Jewish Book Award, the Sammy Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature, and the 2008 National Book Award in Fiction.

Mudbound won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, a prize fully - funded by author Barbara Kingsolver, awarded to previously unpublished first novels that address issues of social justice.

Orbit author N.K. Jemisin received a Hugo Award for The Obelisk Gate, the second year in a row she has taken that prize, and Grand Central Publishing has a National Book Award finalist in Fiction, Min Jin Lee's gorgeous immigration saga Pachinko.

-- Winning a well - regarded prize relevant to an author's genre is regarded as most important for poets (60.7 per cent), literary fiction (55.1 per cent) and children's authors (49.5 per cent).

In 2017 the fiction prize was won by Sara Batkie for her manuscript Better Times, chosen by guest judges Chigozie Obioma and Christine Sneed with Editor - in - Chief Kwame Dawes.

If you get a chance and haven't already voted in the Adult Fiction category, I'd love your vote PLUS you could enter my giveaway for a $ 50 gas gift card and other great prizes!

A prize of $ 1,000 and publication by New American Press is given annually for a book of fiction.

The competition offers a total prize money of 500,000 rand ($ 57,000) in three categories for books published in Afrikaans the previous year: literary fiction, non-fiction and book with most film potential, with the latter being won by Zirk's novel.

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.

You might want to check out the offerings from twelve Canadian writers, who are all contending for the the richest fiction prize in Canada - the $ 100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The winners on this list are in bold and the others comprise of the other books competing for the highest prize in science fiction and fantasy.

Fulfilling one of the objectives of the prize — to encourage the widest possible readership for the best in literary fiction — the winner and the shortlisted authors now enjoy a dramatic increase in book sales worldwide.

Read Russia Prize The READ RUSSIA PRIZE is a cash prize of up to $ 10,000 awarded in New York each May for works of Russian literature in English translation in the following categories: contemporary fiction written after 1990; 20th - century fiction written betwPrize The READ RUSSIA PRIZE is a cash prize of up to $ 10,000 awarded in New York each May for works of Russian literature in English translation in the following categories: contemporary fiction written after 1990; 20th - century fiction written betwPRIZE is a cash prize of up to $ 10,000 awarded in New York each May for works of Russian literature in English translation in the following categories: contemporary fiction written after 1990; 20th - century fiction written betwprize of up to $ 10,000 awarded in New York each May for works of Russian literature in English translation in the following categories: contemporary fiction written after 1990; 20th - century fiction written betwee...

International Prize for Arabic Fiction The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is an annual literary prize run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by the TCA Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

Rogers Writers» Trust Fiction Prize This prize for literary excellence offers a $ 25,000 first prize to the novel or short - story collection the judges determine is the year's best... Deadline: 2016-07-27

Cox's short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize.

She's received the Rona Jaffe Fiction Award as well as prizes from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Press Club, and the New York Black Journalists Association.

Under the Udala Trees By Chinelo Okparanta Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544811799 One of Granta's New Voices in 2012 and author of a prize - winning short story collection, Okparanta received the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for this striking debut novel about a Nigerian girl's coming of age.

Anne Enright's novel The Forgotten Waltz is the first winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, while Robert K. Massie's biography Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman captured the nonfiction prize.

Published independently in 2014, this warm, humorous space opera was quickly adopted by science fiction readers, ending up on longlists for several prestigious prizes, including the Arthur C. Clarke award.

This is my experience of waiting to hear about being shortlisted for a major writing prize, the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the world's largest short fiction award.

This chilling novel, a finalist for the Man Booker prize, imagines an anti-Semitic future where wit and irony, along with jazz and literary fiction, have evaporated in the heat of a second Holocaust sometime in the 21st century.

Entry criteria for the Booker prize state that «self - published books are not eligible where the author is the publisher or where a company has been specifically set up to publish that book», while the Bailey's women's prize for fiction stipulates that books must come from a «bone fide imprint».

I represent both fiction and non-fiction titles for many world - renowned authors and prize - winning journalists, ranging from literary novels to memoirs, biographies, and books on current affairs.»

Entry is open to Australian and New Zealand authors, and there are two categories for the 2016 prize: fiction, and children's picture books.

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.

PRISM International Short Fiction Contest offers a CA$ 2000 (US$ 1800) first prize for stories up to 6000 words in length.

You might want to check out the offerings from twelve Canadian writers, who are all contending for the the richest fiction prize in Canada — the $ 100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Over 30 different wards were given out during the event and some of the most notable ones include; The Donna Tartt Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, The Goldfinch, won the Literary Fiction prize, and the audiobook's narrator, David Pittu, also won the prize for Best Solo - Narration - Male.

As in recent years, the 2012 ABNA, sponsored in part by CreateSpace, will once again have two separate categories, one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction, with a grand prize winner in each category.

-- Sunday Times (UK) «This terrific first novel (shortlisted for the Baileys women's prize for fiction) deals with the daily stresses of living with the political upheavals of the time but the real drama is happening in Yejide's womb.

Submissions are now open for the # 5,000 prize, which is given annually to the best work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged between 18 and 35.

A prize of $ 2,500 and publication of an excerpt in Scandinavian Review is given annually for an English translation of a work of poetry, fiction, or creative...

One of these authors, Angie Thomas, was awarded two prizes, the Debut Goodreads Author Award, and the Young Adult Fiction Award for The Hate U Give.

A prize of $ 1,000 and publication by University of Georgia Press is given annually for a collection of short fiction.

A prize of $ 2,500 and publication in American Short Fiction will be given annually for a short story.

A prize of $ 1,000 is given annually for a book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction by a current resident of Maryland who has lived in the state for at least three years...

Each year the judges award over # 18,000 in prize money for the best submissions in poetry, short stories, flash fiction and first novels.

Barry Award The Barry Award is prize for excellence in crime fiction.

He also has won a first prize for visionary fiction from Independent Publisher and a first prize for nonfiction from USA Book News.

Stephen Hawley Martin is a professional editor, ghostwriter, and author, and the only three - time winner of the Writer's Digest Book Award, having won first prize twice for fiction and once for nonfiction.

Glimmer Train Press Fiction Open: A prize of $ 3,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 10 copies of the prize issue is given twice yearly for a short story.

Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Award: A prize of $ 2,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 10 copies of the prize issue is given three times a year for a very short story.