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Sri Lankan Wins Booker Prize for Second Novel

Sri Lankan Wins Booker Prize for Second Novel

Winner The Booker Prize 2022 Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Published by Sort Of Books (August 2022) Shehan Karunatilaka has won The Booker Prize of 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The novel is a searing, mordantly...

French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French Writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in literature for 2022, it was announced by the Nobel Foundation on October 6, 2022. The 82-year-old writer is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction. The Prize was given “for the courage and...

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, September 28, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, September 25, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

Wolf Hall Author Dame Hilary Mantel Dies

Wolf Hall Author Dame Hilary Mantel Dies

Dame Hilary Mantel, the author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. Her longtime agent Bill Hamilton said she died days after suffering a stroke on Monday, September 19, but that has not been confirmed. According to the...

Portland Book Festival Due November 5

Portland Book Festival Due November 5

This year's Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of America, returns to Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues on November 5, 2022. Join writers and book lovers for this all-ages, daylong celebration of books and storytelling in all forms, including author...

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, September 21, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, September 18, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

2022 Saroyan Writing Prize Winners Announced

2022 Saroyan Writing Prize Winners Announced

Stanford, CA--Chouette (Ecco, 2021) a novel by Claire Oshetsky, and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women (Graywolf Press, 2020), a memoir by Wayétu Moore, are the recipients of the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing administered by Stanford Libraries...