Jean-Baptiste Andrea received the Goncourt Prize, France’s most prestigious literary award, on Tuesday for his novel “Watching Over Her.” The novel, published by L’Iconoclaste, is a sprawling fresco that follows Michelangelo “Mimo” Vitaliani, a dwarf and skilled sculptor who at the end of his life is said to be “watching over” his masterpiece, a mysteriously powerful sculpture. Read more
Category: Awards
Winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards Announced
This weekend, the winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced at the 81st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). The ceremony was held October 21st at the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum in Chengdu, China. Read more
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Winners of the Kirkus Prize Announced
The Kirkus Prize, a leading literary award, has been awarded this year to authors Ariel Aberg-Riger, Héctor Tobar and James McBride. The prize selects winners in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and young reader’s literature from a pool of nearly 11,000 authors whose books appeared in Kirkus Reviews, the influential journal known for starred prepublication reviews. Read more
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Meet This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Recipients
A scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist, and the sitting U.S. poet laureate were among the 20 new recipients of the prestigious fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, known as “genius grants,” announced on Wednesday. Read more
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Norwegian Writer Jon Fosse Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday, for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” Read more
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Kimiko Hahn Wins $100,000 Award from Poetry Foundation
Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of the poetry world’s most lucrative prizes. Hahn, a faculty member of Queens College in New York City whose books include “The Unbearable Heart” and “Earshot,” won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Read more
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Moses McKenzie’s ‘Profound’ Debut Novel Wins Hawthornden Prize for Literature
The Hawthornden Prize is awarded annually to a British, Irish or British-based author for a work of “imaginative literature”, including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction — published in the previous calendar year. Read more
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Alice Winn Wins 2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
The novel, inspired by archive clippings from a student newspaper, chronicles the love story between two first world war soldiers. It was announced as the winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday evening. Read more
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Ned Beauman Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award for ‘Venomous Lumpsucker’
Ned Beauman has won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction with his “twisted” and “bleakly funny” novel, Venomous Lumpsucker. Read more
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The 2023 Eisner Award Winners Are Here
The Eisner Awards awarded its 2023 winners last night at San Diego Comic-Con. While Image had the most total nominations, and DC the second-most, DC’s Nightwing won all three of the categories it was recognized for… Read more
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