Paul Auster Wins Spain's Prince of Asturias Award
Novelist Paul Auster recently won Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. He received 50,000 euros (approximately $62,850).
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Hall Succeeds Kooser as U.S. Poet Laureate
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced today that Donald Hall will be the next U.S. poet laureate. He will succeed Ted Kooser, who has held the position since 2004.
Of Rights and Men: Steinbeck's Kin Win Two-Year Court Battle
The publishing and movie rights to John Steinbeck's early novels, previously held by Penguin and heirs of Steinbeck's widow Elaine, who died in 2003 at the age of 88, were recently awarded to the author's son and granddaughter by a federal judge in New York.
AbeBooks Reveals Ten Most Expensive Books Sold
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, AbeBooks recently compiled a list of the ten most expensive used books that have been sold on its Web site since 1996. The list includes a first edition of The Hobbit, published in 1937. The book, one of only 1,500 copies printed, sold for $65,000. A copy of the first collection of John Donne’s poems, published in 1633, sold for $60,000. And an inscribed copy of George Orwell’s 1984 sold for $26,500.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and Small Press Distribution Join Forces
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution (SPD) have "entered into a formal strategic partnership" to "maximize limited resources," Jeffrey Lependorf, the executive director of CLMP, recently announced. Lependorf has assumed the directorship...
Lucia Perillo Wins $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Lucia Perillo won the fourteenth annual Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection Luck Is Luck (Random House). She received $100,000.
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Random House Pledges To Use More Recycled Paper
Random House recently announced that it will raise the amount of recycled paper it uses to print its books from 3 percent to 30 percent over the next four years.
$25,000 Bellwether Prize Goes to Hillary Jordan
Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver recently announced that Hillary Jordan won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction for her unpublished novel “Mudbound.”
Beloved Named Best Work of American Fiction From the Last Twenty-five Years
Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Knopf, 1987) was recently named “the single best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years,” according to a survey of several hundred writers, critics, and editors conducted by New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus.
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