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Tweeted: Picture Book Prize

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The Prize is open to UK-based debut writers and illustrators over 16, and the winning book will be published in 2019 by Salariya imprint, Scribblers. The winner will receive a £5000 advance against royalties and career advice from a leading children’s book agent. The final date for entries is 5th March 2018 with the winner announced in April 2018.

https://www.salariya.com/article/stratford-salariya-childrens-picture-book-prize-2018

John Burningham’s animals – in pictures

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Guardian slideshow of John Burningham’s animal illustrations from his picture books.
Leading off with a scene from his new book, The Way to The Zoo, the original drawing for which is a prize in a giveaway competition. Entry details in the link…

John Burningham has created some of the sweetest characters in children’s books over the past 50 years – here we celebrate some of his most beautiful animals, from Courtney the dog to Malcolm in It’s a Secret to the many fabulous animals in his new book The Way to the Zoo.

via John Burningham’s animals – in pictures | Children’s books | theguardian.com.

Katherine Rundell wins the Waterstones children’s book prize 2014

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ACHUKA wasn’t in on the live announcement and presentations, but was poised with camera at the entrance, and a slideshow of various luminaries (including the winner) arriving for the award ceremony follows shortly 🙂

Tightrope walker and author Katherine Rundell was last night crowned the overall winner of the 2014 Waterstones children’s book prize with Rooftoppers Faber and Faber. And as the prize is celebrating its 10th birthday, there was an extra special feel to this year’s award.Rooftoppersby Katherine Rundell Buy the bookTell us what you think: Star-rate and review this bookKatherine Rundell fought off tough competition for the top prize from teen category winner Holly Smale with her debut novel Geek Girl HarperCollins Children’s Books and Nicola O’Byrne who won best picture book category with Open Very Carefully Nosy Crow.

via Katherine Rundell wins the Waterstones children's book prize 2014 | Children's books | theguardian.com.

New Essay Prize Announced: The Connell Guides Essay Prize

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A new essay prize has been announced, aimed at students studying for A-Level.

The winning essay will be selected by Wlliam Boyd, from a shortlist selected by a panel of judges chaired by Jolyon Connell.

As outlined below, the deadline for entries is some way off, and no entries can be submitted until January 2014, but students may well wish to prepare their essay well ahead of exam practice and revision deadlines.

The first prize of £1000 and the kudos of having your work picked out by William Boyd should ensure significant interest in this new prize, which teachers will be able to highlight with a view to encouraging literary appreciation and the fluent expression of personal tastes and viewpoints.

The Connell Guides Essay Prize is open to any sixth form pupil studying English Literature as part of an AS Level, A Level or IB Course. There will be a prize of £1,000 for the winning essay. Each of five runners-up will receive a £100 book token.

The entries for this prize will be shortlisted by a panel chaired by Jolyon Connell. The winner and runners-up will be chosen by the novelist William Boyd.

What to write:

William Boyd wants to know which novel, play, or poem has made an impact on you, and why you find it interesting and enjoyable.

• Your essay should combine insight, originality and clarity.
• You need to address your chosen subject with argumentative energy, showing why it has made an impact on you. Essays need to show logic in the way they are structured and precision in their choice of words.
• You will be expected to take an original point of view, while making intelligent use of evidence found in and around your chosen text(s) – and, where appropriate, referencing the history and culture surrounding the text(s) to support your points.
• Essays must be between 1200 and 1500 words long.

We will accept submissions from January 6th, 2014. Full details of how to enter will be published here in December 2013.

The closing date for entries is March 28th, 2014. Winners will be announced here on May 2nd, 2014.

via The Connell Guides Essay Prize – Connell Guides.

Deutsche Börse photography prize 2013 won by Broomberg and Chanarin

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The London-based artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have become the first duo to win the Deutsche Börse photography prize. They were presented with the £30,000 award by the film director Mike Figgis at a ceremony this evening at the Photographers’ Gallery in London, which sponsors the prize.

The award is for a “significant contribution to the medium of photography either through an exhibition or publication in Europe” throughout the previous year. Broomberg and Chanarin were praised for their book War Primer 2, originally published in a small edition by Mack Books, which reworks Bertolt Brecht’s original War Primer publication from 1955 using internet screengrabs and mobile phone snaps to comment on the role of photography in the so-called “war on terror”.

via Deutsche Börse photography prize 2013 won by Broomberg and Chanarin | Art and design | guardian.co.uk.

Bakker’s The Detour wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won this year’s £10,000 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize with his novel The Detour, published by Harvill Secker.
It is the author’s second major literary prize win; his previous novel, The Twin, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010.
Bakker will share the prize money with the title’s translator, David Colmer

via Bakker’s The Detour wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize | The Bookseller.

Also on the shortlist:
The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson (Canongate)
Croatian author Dasa Drndic’s Trieste, translated by Ellen Elisa-Bursac (Maclehose Press)
Chris Barnard’s Bundu, translated from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns (Alma Books)
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey and Anne McLean (Harvill Secker)

Book award renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy

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Major New Zealand book award being renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy:

Margaret Mahy

One of New Zealand’s best loved authors has had the country’s top award for children’s books renamed in her memory.

The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards has announced that the top prize in the competition will be now be known as the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.

Mahy was a previous finalist and winner of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards and is a finalist in this year’s picture book category for her book Mister Whistler.

via Book award renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy – Entertainment News | TVNZ.

2013 Picture Book Awards Winners

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2013 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards – Winners announced

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Established in 1995, these awards are presented annually by the English Association to the best picture books of the previous year, in four categories:  Fiction 4-7 and 7-11 yrs, and Non-Fiction 4-7 and 7-11 yrs. The winning books are chosen by the editorial board of English 4-11 from a shortlist of 12-18 books selected by a panel of teachers, with input from children. The prizes are awarded at the English Association’s Annual General Meeting each May, and the winning and shortlisted books are featured in a full-colour poster in the summer issue of the journal.  This poster is also circulated to libraries, children’s bookshops and other interested parties. English 4-11 is the only journal dedicated to English in the primary classroom.  It is a joint publication of the English Association www.le.ac.uk/engassoc  and the United Kingdom Literacy Association www.ukla.org

The Awards will be presented to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers at the English Association’s AGM on Wednesday 15 May at the British Academy in London.

This year’s Winners are:

4-7 yrs Fiction

Hippospotamus by Jeanne Willis, illus. by Tony Ross, Andersen Press

7-11 yrs Fiction

Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo, illus. by Olivia Lomenech Gill, Templar Publishing

4-7 yrs Non-Fiction

A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, illus. by Mark Hearld Walker Books

7-11 yrs Non-Fiction

How We Make Stuff by Christiane Dorion, illus. by Beverley Young Templar Publishing

Shortlisted:

  • The Chronicles of Harris Burdick  Chris Van Allsburg,  Andersen Press
  • Rabbityness  Jo Empson, , Child’s Play (International) Ltd
  • Who’s For Dinner  Claire Freedman, illustrated by Nick East,  Little Tiger Press
  • Katie and the Starry Night  James Mayhew,  Orchard
  • Mr Leon’s Paris  Barroux, translated by Sarah Ardizzone , Phoenix Yard Books
  • House of Horrors  Nick Arnold, illustrated by Tony De Saulles,  Scholastic Children’s Books
  • In The Forest  Sophie Strady, illustrated by Anouk Boisrobert & Louis Rigaud,  Tate Publishing
  • Jack and the Baked Beanstalk  Colin Stimpson,  Templar Publishing
  • One Gorilla  Anthony Browne,  Walker Books
  • Demolition  Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock,  Walker Books
  • The Fact or Fiction Behind Urban Myths  Paul Mason,  Wayland

 

 

New England Thunderbolt Prize

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New Australian prizes for short-form writing:

New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing

From the sometime home of legendary bushranger Captain Thunderbolt and magistrate Thomas Alexander Browne— aka Rolf Boldrewood— the author of the classic tale Robbery Under Arms, the New England Writers’ Centre announces three exciting new prizes for short-form crime writing.

1.  New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Fiction

First Prize: $500 for a story of up to 2,500 words.

2.   New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Non-Fiction

First Prize: $500 for an article of up to 2,500 words.

3.   New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Poetry

First Prize: $500 for a poem of up to 60 lines.

via New England Thunderbolt Prize.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners

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Ben Fountain’s satire "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk" was named the winner of the L.A. Times 2012 book prize for fiction on Friday night at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Katherine Boo’s "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity" took the prize in the current interest category.

The complete list of winners:

–Biography: Robert Caro, "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson" (Knopf)

–Current Interest: Katherine Boo, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity" (Random House)

–Fiction: Ben Fountain, "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk" (HarperCollins Publishers / Ecco)

–The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Maggie Shipstead, "Seating Arrangements" (Knopf)

–Graphic Novel/Comics: Sammy Harkham, "Everything Together: Collected Stories" (PictureBox)

–History: Fergus M. Bordewich, "America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union" (Simon & Schuster)

–Mystery/Thriller: Tana French, "Broken Harbor" (Viking)

–Poetry: Louise Glück, "Poems 1962-2012" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

–Science & Technology: Florence Williams, "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History" (W.W. Norton & Company)

–Young Adult Literature: A.S. King, "Ask the Passengers" (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Previously announced:

–Innovator’s Award: Margaret Atwood

–Robert Kirsch Award: Kevin Starr

via Announcing the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners – latimes.com.