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Winners of the L.A. Times Book Prize Announced

The spotlight shined on great literature Friday night at the 44th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, where winners took the stage to celebrate their honors and, in some cases, call attention to the free speech controversy unfolding on campus. A political undercurrent ran through the night’s speeches following the university’s cancellation of a commencement speech by pro-Palestinian valedictorian Asna Tabassum. Read more

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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year’s edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Amor Towles has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices. Read more

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Palestinian American Poet Fady Joudah Receives $100,000 Prize

Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers … The Jackson prize was established in 2007, and has previously been given to Sonia Sanchez, Joy Harjo and Claudia Rankine among others. Read more

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10 Writers Win 2024 Whiting Awards for Emerging Authors

Each writer will receive $50,000 to help support their craft — one of largest awards granted to new authors. A number of past Whiting winners have gone on to publish award-winning and bestselling works, including Hernan Diaz, Catherine Lacey, Colson Whitehead, Alice McDermott and Ocean Vuong. Read more

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Paul Yoon Wins 20th Annual Story Prize

The Hive and The Honey is a collection of astonishing breadth, offering a panoramic portrait of Korean diaspora, of lives rescued from the margins of history. These characters reveal themselves most acutely through intimate gestures, moments that infuse the ordinary with lasting wonder and could only be achieved by a writer as patient, curious, and masterful as Paul Yoon… Read more

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Lorrie Moore Is Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

The awards, which were announced at a ceremony at the New School in New York City, are among the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States. Unlike other major awards, the recipients are chosen by book critics instead of committees made up of authors or academics. Read more

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Audie Awards (for Best Audiobooks) Announced

The night’s biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year, went to the memoir Surrender, written and narrated by Bono and published by Penguin Random House Audio … Other winners across the 27 awards catagories included Making It So, written and narrated by Patrick Stewart (Autobiography/Memoir); Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, narrated by Meryl Streep (Fiction); Leslie F*cking Jones, written and narrated by Leslie Jones (Humor); Poverty, by America, written by Matthew Desmond and narrated by Dion Graham (Nonfiction); and This Terrible True Thing, written by Jenny Laden and narrated Gail Shalan (Young Adult). Read More

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Science Fiction Awards Held in China Under Fire for Excluding Authors

A prestigious literary award for science fiction, which was hosted in China for the first time, has come under fire for excluding several authors from the 2023 awards, raising concerns about interference or censorship in the awards process. The New York Times bestseller Babel by RF Kuang, an episode of the Netflix drama The Sandman and the author Xiran Jay Zhao were among the works and authors excluded from the 2023 Hugo awards, which were administered by the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Chengdu in October. Read more

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Dave Eggers Wins Newbery, Vashti Harrison Wins Caldecott

The top awards for children’s literature in 2024 were announced Monday at the American Library Association’s annual Youth Media Awards. Author Dave Eggers won the John Newbery Medal, which is given to the most distinguished American children’s book published the previous year, for his middle grade book The Eyes and the Impossible, which was illustrated by Shawn Harris. Author and illustrator Vashti Harrison won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children, for her book Big. Read more

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