Yesterday, the 2013 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction was announced (click here for their announcement). Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Finalists were: Threats, by Amelia Gray Kind One, by Laird Hunt Hold It ‘Till It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson Watergate, by Thomas Mallon
Today the winner of The Story Prize, a prize established in 2004 to honor short story collections, was announced. Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins The other two finalists were: Stay Awake, by Dan Chaon This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz
I was not a fan of the 2011 Booker Prize and its judges’ quest for “readability,” which they defined as something that “zipped along.” It seemed everyday there was a new article criticizing the prize and the judges, and it all completely overshadowed the books. One of the responses was the inception of a new … Read more
The twenty titles on the longlist of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) were announced: A Trick I Learned from a Dead Man, by Kitty Aldridge Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson The Marlowe Papers, by Ros Barber The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, by Shani Boianjiu Gone Girl, by Gillian … Read more
The announcement of this award slips past me every year. I was just looking to see when it would be announced and see that it already was (see their page). Winner: The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers Finalists: A Partial History of Lost Causes, by Jennifer duBois In the Shadow of the Banyan, by Vaddey Ratner … Read more
The 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalists have been announced (see the official site). The winner will be announced on March 19. Threats, by Amelia Gray Kind One, by Laird Hunt Hold It ‘Til It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson Watergate, by Thomas Mallon Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz I … Read more
Over at Three Percent, the 2013 Best Translated Book Longlist has been announced. A great list! I will be updating this post throughout the day and the season to include links to reviews and whatever else seems appropriate. The Planets, by Sergio Chejfec; Argentina; tr. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Open Letter Books) Prehistoric … Read more
Here are the sixteen books on the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist, which comes to us just a few days before the Best Translated Book longlist (which I’m really looking forward to). This is an exceptional list of books. Since this is a British prize, some of the books have been published in the U.S. … Read more
The winners have been announced: Fiction: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain Nonfiction: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon Autobiography: Swimming Studies, by Leanne Sharpton Criticism: Stranger Magic, by Marina Warner Biography: The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro Poetry: Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, by D.A. Powell
The ten Man Booker International Prize Finalists are: U R Ananthamurthy (India) Aharon Appelfeld (Israel) Lydia Davis (USA) Intizar Husain (Pakistan) Yan Lianke (China) Marie NDiaye (France) Josip Novakovich (Canada) Marilynne Robinson (USA) Vladimir Sorokin (Russia) Peter Stamm (Switzerland) This marks the second time in a row that there have been no Latin American authors, not that that’s at all surprising given the judges’ backgrounds. … Read more