#book prize

[wellesleybooks]

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, published by Scribner

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, published by FSG

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, published by Melville House

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles, published by Random House

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia, published by Henry Holt

How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair, published by Simon and Schuster

#women's prize #nonfiction #book prize #women authors #shortlist #2024

[jakobbach]

We won second place: The most beautiful Czech books of the year category: literature for children and youth graphic design: Josefína Karlíková publisher: Leda https://www.en.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz

#kenneth grahame #book design #book illustration #book prize #illustration #kenneth grahame illustration

[sfsucw]

The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas

Accepting submissions for the 2023 Fugere Book Prize: Feb 15, 2023 – May 15, 2023

$1000 and book publication by Regal House Publishing

*Submission fee: $25

https://regalhousepublishing.com/the-fugere-prize-for-finely-crafted-novellas/

#submissions #novel #novella #publication #genre #book prize

[bookishmagpie]

We are delighted to announce the joint winners of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2022! Osebol, by Marit Kapla, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves (@AllenLaneBooks ) Tomb of Sand, by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by @shreedaisy (@TiltedAxisPress ) pic.twitter.com/SBR1gbku67

— Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@WarwickPrizeWiT) November 24, 2022

#book prize #warwickprize #women in translation

[mumblingsage]

The Sator New Works Award will be awarded to a book-length work of either fiction or non-fiction by an author who identifies as trans or nonbinary.

The submitted manuscript must be an original work of at least 30,000 words in length, written by one author, in English.

The selected work will be published by Two Dollar Radio in 2024 (or 2025), and will receive a $3,000 advance.

Deadline December 31, 2022

#signal boost #calls for submissions #writing prize #book prize

[man-reading]

The Whale Tattoo | Jon Ransom

The Polari First Book Prize

Having stormed out two years ago, it won't be easy, nor will returning to the haunted river beside the house where words ripple beneath the surface washing up all sorts of memories. Joe turns to his sister, Birdee, the only person who has ever listened. But she can't help him. Then there's Tim Fysh, local fisherman and long-time lover. But reviving their bond is bound to be trouble. As the water settles and Joe learns the truth about the river, he finds that we all have the capability to hate, and that we can all make the choice not to. Ransom's fractured, distinctive prose highlights the beauty and brutality of his story, his extraordinarily vivid sense of place saturates the reader with the wet of the river, and the salty tang of the sea.

#Jon Ransom #writer #author #Polari #book prize #gay culture #man reading #books worth reading

[miriamvowen]

Petrona Award 2023 Shortlist - Get to know the authors and their books #PetronaAward2023

Hi, I hope you enjoy these notes on the shortlisted books!

Now that the shortlist has been released here are some notes about the books, publishers and their authors/translators: Pascal Engman – FEMICIDE tr. Michael Gallagher (Sweden, Legend Press) Femicide is a page turning, absorbing, thriller featuring Detective Vanessa Frank. A young woman is found murdered in her apartment in the same week her violent ex-boyfriend is released from prison.…

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#Book Prize #Crime Fiction #Nordic Noir #translation

[deereynoldsapologist]

EVERYONE SHUT UP IM THINKING

coriolanus was SO jealous that sejanus’s family essentially took the place of the snows in the capitol and then at the end of the book he literally TAKES SEJANUS’S PLACE. he takes his mom and his dad and his fortune as his own to replace the ones he’s lost by just slipping into the place his dead friend used to fill. coriolanus snow took sejanus plinth’s life and then he fucking stole it.

#maybe the real plinth prize was the friend we killed along the way #its been a couple of months since i finished tbosas so i cant remember if it was more apparent in the book #but that’s literally what happened #tbosas #spoilers #tbosas spoilers #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #coriolanus x sejanus

[introspectivememories]

TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #7 YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

#this comic won a pulitzer prize in my house #when they told us that it would be bernard pov.... chills #and then the actual contents of the book??? #i think i went insane as i read it #genuine changed my brain chemistry #OH MY GOD WHEN WE THOUGHT BEAR WAS GONNA PROPOSE??? #AND THE NECKLACE!!!! THE FUCKING NECKLACE!!! #sorry i'm going feral just thinking about it #td:r #tim drake: robin #bernard dowd #tim drake #timbern #dc

[gameraboy2]

Batman Wins a Prize by Norman Saunders

#Batman Wins a Prize #norman saunders #vintage #comics #painting #art #illustration #comic book #comic book art #comic books

[villetteulogy]

“Coryo only cared about Lucy Gray’s survival for his own selfish reasons”

Coryo thinking about Lucy Gray’s survival:

Before any thought of his own well-being or the incumbent threat of his family’s imminent homelessness, comes Coryo’s desire to help Lucy Gray survive the Games. Those worries don’t negate the sincerity of his intentions towards Lucy Gray, just like Katniss cared both about the survival of her family and keeping Peeta alive. Personal, ‘selfish’ needs can and do coexist with altruistic ones in most people. Not to mention that Snow being willing to do anything to ensure his and his family’s survival doesn’t scream villainous mastermind. He’s an underdog whose only concern is staving off hunger and doing a good enough job to achieve some sense of security.

His determination to keep Lucy Gray alive is born out of gratitude, honor as well as selfless love. Coryo’s motivation here is entirely altruistic: he risks everything he has at stake (his reputation, his chance to save his family from ignominy and hunger, his entire future) to give Lucy Gray a bigger chance at survival.

If it had only been a matter of getting the Plinth money, he would’ve focused all his efforts on endearing himself to the Plinths (as he ends up doing at the end of the story). On the contrary, violating the Academy rules and basically challenging the purpose of the Hunger Games could only result in Coryo’s fall from grace.

It’s not the cheating itself, but the circumstance that he did so for the love of one of the tributes that lands Coryo in exile. If he’d cheated simply to show off or for any other selfish reason, you can bet his punishment wouldn’t have been as extreme. Dr Gaul sees how having a soft spot for Lucy Gray will eventually compromise his allegiance to the Capitol: it’s one mistake that cannot be tolerated in the future elite of Panem.

#helloo he chose lucy gray over the capitol and therefore he had to be punished #this is why that scene in the movie where highbottom tells coryo he’ll never win the plinth prize worked so well #bc it externalises something book!coryo had also decided: aka that it wasn’t about the money at all #his sole motivation for cheating was giving lucy gray a chance to survive #bc he was grateful that she’d saved his life and he had fallen in love with her #he knew that he could’ve gotten the money in other ways (and in fact does so by the end of the book) #snowbaird #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #the hunger games #thg

[why-lamp]

well, here's the update to this post:

i finished it at 3am and cried a whole bunch. and not just about the story (which was very good, very tragic, and also very gay) but also the history behind the book and how it shouldn't even exist. i'll be posting a full analysis soon, Though it may take longer than I'd like (I'll be starting my first year as a teacher on Thursday). for now, i'll leave yall with these excerpts.

#this book is truly my prized possession #like #this book is an absolute anomaly #it wasnt supposed to exist #and nothing like it will ever exist again #star trek #star trek novels #spock #jim kirk #spirk #k/s #star trek killing time #all ill say for now is that there are MULTIPLE romeo and juliet parallels in this book #and they are blatantly about kirk and spock

[useless-catalanfacts]

The Catalan authors who were kept out of the Nobel Literature Prize for being Catalan

Did you know that there have been a handful of Catalan writers who were candidates to win the Nobel Literature Prize, but because of Spanish interference they never did?

The Nobel Prize discloses its debate and reasoning process 50 years after each edition. This means that we already know the details of what happened in the earliest editions of this Prize, which was started in 1901.

The name of the Catalan play-writer Àngel Guimerà (author of Marta of the Lowlands, Mar i cel, La filla del mar...), whose works have been translated to many languages and played all around Europe and the Americas, with many film and opera adaptations, sounded often in the Nobel committee. He was presented as a candidate to win the Nobel Prize 17 times in a row, since 1907 until his death in 1924. In the editions of 1917 and 1919, many were convinced he would win. However, the declassified documents show why he didn't: as written by the man who was then president of the Nobel Committee, Haralg Härne, Guimerà wasn't given the prize "to avoid hurting the national pride of the Spanish". In 1919, Härne writes that the objective of the Nobel Prize is to promote peace and thus to award Guimerà and show support for a minority culture would be to encourage internal conflict (🤦). The Academy decided that they couldn't give a prize to Guimerà "before awarding another writer who expresses himself in the most ancient noble language of the country" (weird way to mean "the official language", aka Spanish, because they surely didn't mean Basque). In summary, if a Catalan is to be considered, he must always be second to a Spanish man. Even when the Catalan is, in the words of the Nobel Academy, "the most eminent writer of our times", he can never be considered an equal, always must be behind.

Àngel Guimerà wrote in the Catalan language, which was discriminated against by Spanish and considered an enemy by the Spanish government and much of Spanish society. Guimerà was a firm defender of the right to use the Catalan language and that nobody should be forced to speak the imperial languages instead of their own, and was involved with the political movement for the rights of Catalan people. For this reason, every time the famous Swedish academy was considering Guimerà, the Spanish Royal Academy of Language (RAE) fought it with all its might. Nowadays, Guimerà's theatre plays continue to move thousands of spectators every year.

The same happened again with the poet Josep Carner. In the 1960s, Josep Carner was on exile, because he was a Catalan poet writing in Catalan and who stood against the fascist dictatorship of Spain, which persecuted the Catalan language and identity. Famous writers from around the world, including T. S. Eliot, François Mauriac, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Roger Caillois, supported Josep Carner's candidacy to win the Nobel, but the Spanish Government did everything possible to obstruct it. We don't know if Carner would have won or not, but he was deprived of even trying because of the Spanish government's hatred of Catalan.

Something similar seems to have happened between the 1970s and 1990s to three other Catalan poets: Salvador Espriu, J. V. Foix, and Miquel Martí i Pol, where they did not get any support from the Spanish authorities, so we don't know how it would have ended up.

Another example of what it means to have a state actively working against you because of bigotry against your cultural group.

Sources: book Det litterära Nobelpriset by the president of the Nobel Committee Kjell Espmarck, Pep Antoni Roig (El Nacional), Joan Lluís-Lluís (El Punt Avui), and Jordi Marrugat (Institut Ramon Llull).

#literatura #arts #història #àngel guimerà #josep carner #literature #books #reading #nobel prize #nobel literature prize #catalanophobia #catalanofòbia #catalan #cultures #writing #human rights #minority languages #1900s #history

[sfsucw]

THE TWO SYLVIAS PRESS 2023 WILDER SERIES POETRY BOOK PRIZE 

Submission Dates: Sept. 1, 2023 - Dec. 31, 2023

2023 Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize:  A Poetry Contest for Women Over Age 50

Judges: The Editors of Two Sylvias Press: Kelli Russell Agodon & Annette Spaulding-Convy ​ Prize: $1000 and publication by Two Sylvias Press (print book and author copies).

For more info and guidelines: https://www.twosylviaspress.com/wilder-series-poetry-book-prize.html

#poetry #submissions #poetry contests #poetry submissions #book submissions #book reviews #book prize

[deoidesign]

A flip through of my first book! (this is a print proof, the final version will have been slightly edited for better formatting and fixing minor issues)

Pirates, vampires, a treasure hunt... what's not to love! I'm funding this (and 3 other books!) on kickstarter right now ^^

#kickstarter stuff #book #graphic novel #time and time again #kickstarter #crowdfunding #lgbt comic #queer comics #my ocs #also you can see my beautiful beautiful coffee table #it opens up into traystands and has so much storage space and its so pretty and also I love it #and I got it for 75% off #I love it so much #its my most prized possession. probably

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

I am once again begging everyone to read the Jeeves books

#jeeves and the feudal spirit #jeeves books #jeeves and wooster #florence craye #bertie's scripture knowledge prize