Yesterday, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK’s most prestigious annual prize for nonfiction, announced their 2023 shortlist. “I’m delighted with the range, originality and relevance of this year’s short-list,” said Frederick Studemann, this year’s chair of judges. “While each title Read more >
Last Sunday, the 44th Annual American Book Awards were presented at the Koret Library in San Francisco, with Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney, and the late bell hooks among the recipients. Administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, which prides itself Read more >
The Royal Society of Literature, in partnership with Lit Hub, presents Michael Imperioli and Ocean Vuong in conversation about their writing and the importance of literature in their lives. They will discuss the experience of writing and releasing novels when you’re Read more >
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to Norwegian writer and perennial contender Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable.” The incredibly prolific and often heralded Jon Fosse, born Read more >
Earlier today, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant”—an $800,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential. Each Read more >
Sofia Cheliack, Bookforum program director, at the 2022 Opening Ceremony. While this year’s Lviv BookForum will be our 30th edition, we have chosen to mark the milestone by looking to the future with purpose. This weekend, 5–8 October, we gather Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced their finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. Five winners will be selected from the twenty-five finalists and announced on Wednesday, November Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for C. Michelle Lindley’s debut novel, The Nude, which will be published by Atria in June. Here’s a little bit about the book from the publisher: A gripping, provocative, and sensual debut novel Read more >
It’s officially October, a month that can mean many things to many people. It may represent a turn in the wheel of the year, when the seasons once again shift, and there is a curious mix of abundance and loss, Read more >
Netflix has released a teaser trailer for Leave the World Behind, a star-studded psychological thriller based on Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel. Directed by Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot), the film stars Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke as Amanda and Clay, a Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, which each year awards $10,000 and publication to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author, alternating yearly between fiction and nonfiction. The 2023 nonfiction prize Read more >
Starting this weekend, to coincide with Banned Books Week, The New Republic and their partners will be kicking off a month-long Banned Books Tour—sending a bookmobile around the country to share books, celebrate reading, and fight book banning. If you Read more >
The wheel of the year continues, as ever, to turn, and that means that it’s now October, a month that can signal chills on the thermometer or those that run down your spine when something spooky rears its head. Fittingly, Read more >
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded next week, on October 5th. If you’re wondering who will win the prize, well, no one knows. No one ever really knows (though last year, some people guessed), considering that the Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, which will be published by Tin House in June. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway Read more >
Today, the shortlist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize which “celebrates books that create ‘dialogues between dilemmas of yesterday and today'”, was announced at an event at Scandinavia House, organized by McGill University. The winner will take home $75,000, the Read more >
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