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PEN America Cancels 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony
Following mass withdrawals of books from consideration, PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, previously slated for April 29. Two cash prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
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PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024: Patricia Nelson
This year’s winner was nominated for the award an impressive eight times and praised for her encyclopedic knowledge, intelligence, curiosity, and diligence.
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PW Bookstore of the Year 2024: Warwick’s
This year’s top honor goes to a 128-year-old store that is beloved by its community, plays host to vibrant literary events for authors large and small, and serves as an anchor business for the Village of La Jolla, Calif.
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PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Writer’s Block Bookstore
In the past decade, Writer’s Block, which sells new books for both adults and children, has become a literary hub of the Greater Orlando metro area.
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PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Sherry Virtz
The Penguin Random House district sales manager, who handles indie bookstores from Pennsylvania through North Carolina, is celebrated for her personal touch.
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Helen Elaine Lee, Joseph Plaster Among 2024 Publishing Triangle Award Winners
The winners of the 36th annual Triangle Awards, which honor the year’s best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2023, were honored at a celebration held at the New School in New York City on April 17.
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PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Red Balloon Bookshop
The Red Balloon, founded in 1984 in St. Paul, Minn., specializes in books for children of all ages. It has been a community gathering space for decades.
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PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Andrea Tetrick
The Ingram sales rep “represents a dizzying array of imprints” and is “a tireless partner in smoothing hitches in the supply chain,” according to one bookseller partner.
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PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery
Cofounded in Calle 24, San Francisco’s Latino cultural district, in 2021, the bookstore specializes in radical literature, poetry, and Spanish-language titles, and embodies the Mission District’s storied revolutionary spirit.
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PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Julie Isgrigg
Isgrigg, a sales rep at Hachette whose territory comprises Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Washington, D.C., has been a nominee for the award for two years running.
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PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Antigone Books
Founded in 1973, Antigone Books stands strong as a Tucson, Ariz., feminist landmark.
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PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Patricia Doherty
The sales rep at Macmillan, which distributes Entangled Publishing, deserves a good deal of credit for that press's prominence in the marketplace in a year of record-breaking growth.
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2024 Whiting Awards Recognize Emerging Writers
Aaliyah Bilal, Elisa Gonzalez, Javier Zamora, and Ada Zhang are among the 10 winners of this year's Whiting Awards for emerging writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama.
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Bologna 2024: Indigenous Literacy Foundation Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Australia’s Indigenous Literacy Foundation is the winner of the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish krona.
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Bologna 2024: Six International Publishers Win Top Prizes
Each year the Bologna Children’s Book Fair honors a half dozen publishers with the BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year; the 2024 winnerswere announced on April 8.
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Bologna 2024: Heinz Janisch and Sydney Smith Win 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
This year’s recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to authors and illustrators of children’s books, are Austria’s Heinz Janisch, for writing; and Canada’s Sydney Smith, for illustration.
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Hanif Abdurraquib, Kathryn Scanlan Among 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
The 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize winners are Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan for fiction, Christina Sharpe and Hanif Abdurraqib for nonfiction, Christopher Chen and Sonya Kelly for drama, and Jen Hadfield and m. nourbeSe philip for poetry.
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Paul Yoon Wins 20th Annual Story Prize
'The Hive and the Honey' is the winner of this year's Story Prize, which was presented at a ceremony March 26 at the Lotos Club in New York City.
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The 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Safiya Sinclair, Lorrie Moore, and Kim Hyseoon were among those to take home National Book Critics Circle Awards on March 21, at the second in-person ceremony held by the organization since the pandemic.
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Bono's 'Surrender' Wins Audiobook of the Year at 2024 Audie Awards
At the 29th annual Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association and held in Los Angeles on March 4, winners across 27 categories were announced. The night's biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year, went to 'Surrender,' written and narrated by Bono.