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Literature
January 11 2022

WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE has been honored with the Phoenix Award

Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine has been honored with the 2022 Phoenix Award, which encourages high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children’s literature. The only prize of its kind, the award recognizes a book of exceptional literary merit published twenty years prior that did not win a major award at the time

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WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE has been honored with the Phoenix Award

Literature
January 11 2022
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 13 2020

Martin Hägglund’s This Life has won the René Wellek Prize

Martin Hägglund’s book This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom has won the René Wellek Prize for the best book in the field by the American Comparative Literature Association. Winners of this award include Umberto Eco and Edward Said.   The awards committee in their citation offered high praise for This Life: “Martin Hägglund’s This

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Martin Hägglund’s This Life has won the René Wellek Prize

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 13 2020
General Humanities & Social Sciences
October 28 2019

Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

UPDATE: Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History, has been declared the winner of the 2019 Cundill Prize. Alan Taylor, Chair of the Jury, praised Lovell: “Her book will dazzle readers with lucid and vivid insights into the power of a protean, and often deadly, ideology – and its enduring impact on our world

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Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

General Humanities & Social Sciences
October 28 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
March 14 2019

2019 PEN America Literary Awards

PEN America, the U.S. chapter of the world’s leading international literary-human rights organization, celebrated the winners of its 2019 Literary Awards on February 26, at a Manhattan ceremony.  Will Mackin’s short story collection, published by Random House, and three titles published by Penguin Random House Publisher Services publisher clients, took home prizes.  Vintage author Sandra Cisneros was presented

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2019 PEN America Literary Awards

Humanities & Social Sciences
March 14 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
February 5 2019

Our 8 NBCC Award Finalists

Congratulations to our 8 National Book Critics Circle finalists for their 2018 Awards. Founded in 1974, the NBCC now comprises more than 1,000 working critics and book-review editors throughout the country, who annually vote and bestow its awards in six categories, honoring the best books published in the past year in the United States.  

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Our 8 NBCC Award Finalists

Humanities & Social Sciences
February 5 2019
THE FRIEND wins The 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 26 2018

THE FRIEND wins the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

We celebrate THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez, published by Riverhead, chosen by the panel of five judges from 368 submissions, as the recipient of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, announced Wednesday evening, November 14, at the annual National Book Foundation dinner in downtown Manhattan. Sigrid Nunez’s previous literary honors include a Whiting Writer’s Award, and

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THE FRIEND wins The 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

THE FRIEND wins the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 26 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 29 2018

Penguin Random House Fiction Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards

Presenting the five finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards published by Penguin Random House     Fiction: FLORIDA by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio) THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai (Viking Books, Penguin Audio) THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio) Poetry: AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books) Translated Literature: FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk,

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Penguin Random House Fiction Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 29 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
September 25 2018

National Book Awards Longlist

  Congratulations to our Penguin Random House authors and their publishing teams who have been chosen by the respective category judges as “longlisted” semi-finalists–including five of the ten Fiction titles–for the 2018 National Book Awards.     Wednesday, October 10: The “shortlist” of five finalists per category will be announced. Wednesday, November 14: The five winners

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National Book Awards Longlist

Humanities & Social Sciences
September 25 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
July 9 2018

The English Patient Wins Best of Man Booker Prize

The one-off award, voted for by the public, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize. The shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker, which honors the best novels written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. “The English Patient

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The English Patient Wins Best of Man Booker Prize

Humanities & Social Sciences
July 9 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 21 2015

ALA Announces Shortlist for 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the shortlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, which are awarded annually for the previous year’s best books written for adult readers and published in the United States.

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ALA Announces Shortlist for 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 21 2015
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 1 2015

Kirkus Announces Finalists for 2015 Book Prizes

The literary journal Kirkus Reviews has announced the finalists for its 2015 book prizes. Congratulations to Jim Shepard, author of The Book of Aron, and Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life, who are finalists in the fiction category, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, and Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature, who are finalists in the nonfiction category.

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Kirkus Announces Finalists for 2015 Book Prizes

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 1 2015
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