Prizes
November 14, 2012
2012 National Book Award Winners Announced 5
by Editor
A novel that “hits the bedrock truth about a whole community” takes the fiction prize.
November 13, 2012
Digging into the 2013 IMPAC Longlist 1
by C. Max Magee
Because of the IMPAC award’s global reach and egalitarian process, it’s always interesting to dig deeper into the longlist.
October 16, 2012
Hilary Mantel Takes Home Her Second Booker Prize 1
by Nick Moran
Bring Up the Bodies author Hilary Mantel, Ladbrokes’s 6/4 favorite for this year’s award, has won her second Man Booker Prize in three years.
October 11, 2012
Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 9
by C. Max Magee
China gets its first literary Laureate as Mo Yan takes home the Nobel Prize.
October 10, 2012
2012 National Book Award Finalists Announced (With Excerpts and Bonus Links) 10
by C. Max Magee
In a departure, well-known writers dominate the fiction nominees.
October 1, 2012
2012′s Literary Geniuses 2
by C. Max Magee
The MacArthur grant awards $500,000, “no strings attached” to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”