Tag: Literary awards
An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead
NEW YORK (AP) - Even sheltering in place, Colson Whitehead has had an eventful year. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzers...
Don DeLillo novel ‘The Silence’ coming in October
NEW YORK (AP) - Don DeLillo will have something to say this fall about fear and isolation. The 83-year-old author known for imagining disaster...
Romance writers association announces new award, the Vivian
NEW YORK (AP) - The Romance Writers of America have dropped their annual RITA awards and replaced them with a prize dedicated to the...
Michael Jackson musical postpones its Broadway debut
NEW YORK (AP) - A stage musical about Michael Jackson has pushed its Broadway debut until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.Preview performances...
The Latest: Anchorage Daily News, ProPublica win Pulitzer
NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes (all times local):3:50 p.m.The Pulitzer Prize for public service went...
Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction’s Women’s Prize
LONDON (AP) - Hilary Mantel’s Tudor blockbuster “The Mirror and the Light†and Bernardine Evaristo’s tapestry of black women’s stories, “Girl, Woman, Other,†are...
Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction’s Women’s Prize
LONDON (AP) - Hilary Mantel’s Tudor blockbuster “The Mirror and the Light†and Bernardine Evaristo’s tapestry of black women’s stories, “Girl, Woman, Other,†are...
Robert Loomis, editor of Angelou, Styron, dies at 93
NEW YORK (AP) - Robert Loomis, a blue-chip editor of old-fashioned sense and persistence who in more than 50 years at Random House encouraged,...
Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’ wins Folio Prize
LONDON (AP) - Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Lost Children Archive†won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ceremony held...
Alex Kotlowitz’s `An American Summer’ wins Lukas Book Prize
NEW YORK (AP) - Alex Kotlowitz's “An American Summer,†an intimate chronicle of gun violence in Chicago, has won the J. Anthony Lukas Book...