In 1980, Julia Child won a National Book Award for Current Interest for a cookbook called Julia Child and More Company. Seven years earlier, George B. Schaller had won a… Read more »

The children’s author Allan Ahlberg responsible for beloved (and possibly the most English-sounding) children’s books The Jolly Postman, Burglar Bill and Each Peach Pear Plum has shown that we can continue… Read more »

The Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were presented over the weekend in Las Vegas, going this year to Donna Tartt for her novel The Goldfinch, and Doris… Read more »

The Lambda Literary Foundation announced its nominations last week for the Lambda Literary Awards, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary of recognizing the best and most notable LGBT writing of the year.… Read more »

Canadian publishing industry magazine Quill and Quire reports that, shocked by the imbalance between men and women who win literary prizes, Janice Zawerbny has come up with the idea for… Read more »

This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be given out this week, so it’s time to get your bets in! GalleyCat reports that Haruki Murakami is the favorite to win the… Read more »

Earlier this week, prolific fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett won the UK’s only prize for comic writing, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. In addition to the prestige and recognition that… Read more »

A point of clarification after yesterday’s post about the decision not to award anybody with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year: it was the Pulitzer Board that decided not… Read more »