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AwardsPhilip Roth on Bad Sex Award Shortlist
Roth (photo by Nancy Crampton, via HMH) was nominated for a racy scene in "The Humbling." Oz, the gamblers' former favorite for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, was nominated for "Rhyming Life and Death." Rock star Nick Cave earned his nod for "The Death of Bunny Munro," and his publisher told the Guardian they were pleased with the shortlist appearance. Here's a particularly juicy passage from a previous nominee, "The Whole World Over" by Julia Glass. "And then before her inner eye, a tide of words leaped high and free, a chaotic joy like frothing rapids: truncate, adjudicate, fornicate, frivolous, rivulet, violet, oriole, orifice, conifer, aquifer, allegiance, alacrity ... all the words this time not a crowding but a heavenly chain ... a release of something deep in the core of her altered brain, words she thought she'd lost for good." The complete list is after the jump, via the Guardian... Liveblogging the National Book Awards
11:03 10:37 GalleyCat at the National Book Awards
Don't worry about buying a tuxedo, because GalleyCat will be covering the event. Senior editor Ron Hogan will be twittering about the event and editor Jason Boog will handle the good old fashioned blogging duties. There may even be some web video surprises. The dinner and ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street. The event will be hosted by author, comedian, and actor Andy Borowitz. Read all about the NBA finalists here. Linden MacIntyre Beats Odds to Win Giller Prize
Fans of the Canadian literary prize entered the "Guess the Giller" contest, predicting the winner for a chance to win a trip to Toronto with $1,000 in spending money. The pool of potential winners may be a small one, however. Out of all the finalists, MacIntyre's book was ranked fourth by popular prediction. The jury had this statement about the book: "'The Bishop's Man' centres on a sensitive topic - the sexual abuses perpetrated by Catholic priests on the innocent children in their care. Father Duncan, the first person narrator, has been his bishop's dutiful enforcer, employed to check the excesses of priests and, crucially, to suppress the evidence. But as events veer out of control, he is forced into painful self-knowledge as family, community and friendship are torn apart under the strain of suspicion, obsession and guilt. A brave novel, conceived and written with impressive delicacy and understanding." Pipkin's Woodsburner Takes First Novel Prize
As a sidenote: The Center also announced that the First Novel Prize, which was known as the Sargent Prize from 2006 to 2008, would be renamed the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize beginning in 2010. The new sponsorship comes from financial writer and Center board member Nancy Dunnan, in memory of her father, Ray Flaherty. Writing In Between Alaska and NYCSince she spent years living in between New York City and Alaska, Joan Kane's poetry crisscrosses two vastly different worlds. In this video interview, she described how these two places influenced her new book, "The Cormorant Hunter's Wife." Kane was one of the ten writers honored at the 25th annual Whiting Writers' Awards last week. GalleyCat prowled the aisles of the 2009 Whiting Awards, interviewing a number of the winners about their writing lives, the recession, and the future of literature. The ten recipients each took home a $50,000 award for their literary efforts. Here's more about the author: "Kane is Irish and Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and her M.F.A. from Columbia University ... In 2009 her play, 'The Gilded Tusk,' won the Anchorage Museum theater contest." "Wizard of Oz" Wins Book of the Year Award
The UK version of the book was published by Atlantic Books, and Counterpoint/Soft Skull published the American edition. The 352-page book was filled with handcrafted photographs by the artist. Here's more from former Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press publisher Richard Nash: "Rawle has stripped the epic story of Dorothy's journey to Oz of all remnants of Hollywood iconography. Gone are the Judy Garland braids, the Technicolor ruby slippers, the ethereal Glinda the Good Witch. In their place, Rawle has fashioned characters and scenery that are at once relentlessly modern and also devoutly loyal to Baum's original text." (Via Richard Nash) Advice for Young Poets"Think about the whole of things, as opposed to thinking about right now or about how much there is to eat at the moment or what the problem is necessarily today," said poet Jericho Brown when asked to give advice to young poets. Brown was one of the ten writers honored at the 25th annual Whiting Writers' Awards this week. GalleyCat prowled the aisles of the 2009 Whiting Awards, interviewing a number of the winners about their writing lives, the recession, and the future of literature. The ten recipients each took home a $50,000 award for their literary efforts. Here's more about the author, from his website: "Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University." Margaret Atwood Advises the 2009 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients
Last night, ten authors received a $50,000 check from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, part of the 25th annual Whiting Writers' Awards. Since 1985, the philanthropic foundation has given emerging creative writers these grants. Previous winners have included: "Denis Johnson, Michael Cunningham, Alice McDermott, and Colson Whitehead. The complete list of winners follows after the jump. GalleyCat was there, shooting video interviews with the winners and finding out more about Atwood's recent foray into the world of Twitter. "It's been quite a lot of fun. I can send out desperate tweets and 15 people will answer my question," she explained after the ceremony. Twitter hadn't corrupted her writing style, she concluded: "It's a descendant of the telegram. Telegrams required succinctness because they charged by the word. It's a message." David Small's Stitches: YA? Really? OK!
"There was a question among the judges [in the young people's literature category]," Harold Augenbraum, the executive director of the National Book Foundation, told us when we called asking about the nomination, "but it ultimately depends on where the publisher nominates the book, and this is where [Norton] nominated it." "We always intended to submit Stitches in the young people's category," confirmed Erin Sinesky Lovett, Norton's assistant director of publicity. "We knew it would appeal to a YA audience as well as an adult audience." She added that because Small had never written for an adult readership before, the graphic novel could be seen as a "transitional" work, building from his distinguished background as a children's book writer and illustrator, and observed that the story was "age-appropriate" for teen readers who grew up on Small's earlier work. We took another quick look at the book this afternoon, and though we'll be re-reading it closely just to make sure, we can't argue with that. And thus David Small becomes the second graphic novelist (after Gene Luen Yang to be in the running for a National Book Award—we'll see what happens at the awards ceremony next month! (And, in a neat twist, it's now the second consecutive year Small's illustrated an NBA nominee—he also did the artwork for Kathi Appelt's The Underneath.) PreviouslyBonnie Jo Campbell Rocks the Twittersphere 2009 National Book Awards Finalists Announced Journalist, Novelist, and Librarian Will Judge Story Prize American Author Barack Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize Novelist Herta Müller Wins Nobel Prize in Literature Hilary Mantel Wins Man Booker Prize Ian Frazier Wins His Second $5K Thurber Prize NBF Unveils 2009 "5 Under 35" List Nobel Prize in Literature to Be Revealed Oct. 8 Elmore Leonard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Winners Honored Annette Gordon-Reed Wins $25,000 History Prize Bruce Barcott Wins Literary Activism Prize Betting Site Ranks Amos Oz as 2009 Nobel Prize Favorite Richard Bausch and Benjamin Skinner Win Dayton Literary Peace Prize MacArthur Foundation to Announce $500,000 "Genius Grant" Winners Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announced FT/Goldman Sachs Unveils Biz Book Shortlist NBF Will Celebrate Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers Nathan Bransford Gets Book Blogger Appreciation Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist Announced Amazon Awards PEN American Center $25K Book Blogger Appreciation Voting Has Begun Alice Munro Withdraws from Running for $50,000 Prize 16 Translators Share $275,000 in NEA Grants Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Win Literary Peace Prize We're Going to Need a Bigger Ballot Twilight Sweeps Teen Choice Awards Neil Gaiman Wins Best Novel Hugo Award E-Readers Featured in App Awards Hyperion's Barbara Jones Honored by YWCA Seymour Hersh Wins Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism Help NPR Pick the Best Beach Books Pritzker Military Library Honors WWII Historian Edward P. Jones Takes Prizewinning Prize Debut Novelist Michael Thomas Wins 100,000 Euro Prize Prince of Poets Contest Draws Millions of Viewers Marilynne Robinson Wins £30,000 Prize Two Writers Win $60,000 Fellowship Illinois UP Receives Lifetime Achievement Award James King Wins Breakthrough Novel Award Alice Munro Wins £60,000 Man Booker International Prize Sana Krasikov Receives $100,000 Award DC Writing Award Organizer Criticizes New York Publisher 20th Annual Independent Press Award Winners Announced Stephenie Meyer Wins Author of the Year Award NYPL Honors Jane Mayer's Dark Side Michael J. Fox's Sixty-Minute Book Trailer National Book Foundation Awards Innovations in Reading Prizes Jennifer McLagan Wins Cookbook of the Year England's First Female Poet Laureate Named Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner Announced Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded Drenka Willen Wins Lifetime Achievement Award Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semifinalists Announced Poetry Showdown at New York Magazine O. Henry Prize Stories Partners with PEN American Center Lukas Prize Project Awards Announced Guggenheim Fellowship Winners Announced 2009 Eisner Award Nominees Announced Writers Largely Absent from Universal Record Database Finalists for £100,000 Award Announced Toni Morrison and Tom Piazza in Final for Tournament of Books James Beard Foundation Awards Book Nominees Announced Sana Krasikov Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize Youssef Ziedan Wins $50,000 Arabic Fiction Prize 2009 Man Booker International Prize Longlist Announced Interview with NYPL Young Lions Award Winner Salvatore Scibona Salvatore Scibona Wins $10,000 Young Lions Fiction Award Penguin Wins Best in Show at SXSW Exclusive Interview with NBCC Poetry Winner Juan Felipe Herrera Exclusive Interview with 2008 NBCC Criticism Winner Seth Lerer Community Writing Site Protagonize Is Finalist at SXSW Web Awards Michael Dahlie Receives $8,000 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Tobias Wolff Wins $20,000 Story Prize Barnes & Noble Announces Discover Award Winners "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill Wins PEN/Faulkner Award Naomi Klein Wins £50,000 Warwick Prize Inspirational Power of Last Lecture Recognized Three Percent Picks Best Translated Books Five Finalist Named for $10,000 Young Lions Fiction Award Did Last Year's Amazon Winner Really Breakthrough? Neil Gaiman Wins Newbery Medal NBCC Announces Book Award Finalists Six Finalists for £50,000 Warwick Prize Announced Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominees Announced Paul Beatty, 5 Other Writers Receive "Creative Capital" Grants Writers Lead List of Thinking Man's Sex Symbols Booker Prize Backer Had $360 Million Invested with Bernard L. Madoff Lawrence Weschler's Strange MacArthur Awards Secret Breaking: Poet Elizabeth Alexander To Read At Barack Obama's Inauguration |
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