The 25th Annual Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards were announced on Wednesday during a private ceremony in New York City. Jill Leovy took home the first place nonfiction prize for Ghettoside: a True Story of Murder in America (Spiegal & Grau), while the first-place prize for fiction went to Mia Alvar for In the Country (Knopf/Vintage).
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The revered literary critic, author and essayist – most famous for 1980 novel The Name of the Rose – had been suffering from cancer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands of individual voices to map the implosion of the Soviet Union, has won the Nobel prize for literature.
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The fall season is bursting with books from big-name authors, from Jonathan Franzen to Bill O'Reilly toMindy Kaling. USA TODAY's Jocelyn McClurg offers a guide to 10 of the season's coolest reads.
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Announcing the winner of this prize for debut novels, Louise Doughty urges publishers to support writers across their whole careers.
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Debut novel about forced illegal adoptions from Ireland to the US has over 150,000 ebook sales in just three months, making it this year’s bestselling Irish digital book.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has a tradition that spans over more than 500 years. Soon after Johannes Gutenberg had developed printing in movable letters in Mainz near Frankfurt, the first book fair was held by local booksellers.
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Pearson Chooses Digital Path as It Plans to Sell Financial Times to Nikkei Inc.
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