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We're delighted to announce that Akhil Sharma's novel FAMILY LIFE has been short-listed for the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Previous recipients of the prize include Cyrus Mistry, Jeet Thayil, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
This year's winner will be announced at the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka on January 16, 2016. For the full short-list, and more information about the prize, click here.
Amazon book editors have announced their selections for the Best Books of 2015, and we're thrilled to share that Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES is their #1 book of the year, in all categories.
From Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com: "Groff's language is electric and her ingenious plotting is fascinating and unlike anything I've read in years. Our editors adored it."
See the rest of the list here.
We're excited to share that Mark Doty's DEEP LANE has been selected as one of ten finalists for the annual TS Eliot Prize, one of the UK's most prestigious poetry awards. Doty has taken home the prize once before, in 1995 for his collection MY ALEXANDRIA. Previous winners also include Anne Carson, Ted Hughes, and Sharon Olds.
This year's judges are poets Pascale Petit, Kei Miller, and Ahren Warner. Petit has praised the shortlisted books for their "ambition, verve and technical mastery."
The TS Eliot Prize Readings will be held on January 10, 2016, in London. The winner will be announced the next day.
We're so pleased to see Victor Lodato's fantastic short story "Jack, July" included in both THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2015 and THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2015.
The story was originally published in The New Yorker.
The list of finalists for the 2015 National Book Award has come in, and Lauren Groff is included for her masterful novel FATES AND FURIES, which Ron Charles praised earlier this year as a "clear-the-ground triumph."
The winner will be announced on November 18 at the National Book Award ceremony and benefit dinner.
Earlier this year at the Rhode Island School of Design, "filth elder" John Waters gave a brilliant commencement address in which he encouraged boldness in artistic expression and challenged students to "Horrify us with new ideas." Having been shared widely across the internet, the speech is now set to be published by Algonquin Books — in true Waters fashion, there will be artwork along with the text.
More good news for FATES AND FURIES this week as it debuts on the New York Times' Best Sellers list at #7 in Hardcover Fiction.
We're beyond thrilled to share that Lauren Groff has made the 2015 National Book Award longlist for her novel FATES AND FURIES.
Finalists will be announced on October 14, 2015.
Huge congratulations to Michael Christie for making the longlist of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of the biggest prizes for fiction in Canada. Past winners include Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje, and this year, twenty two books were selected from a record number of submitted titles. The shortlist will be announced on October 5, 2015.
Of the longlist, the jury (including John Boyne, Cecil Foster, Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, and Helen Oyeyemi) wrote: “It’s been a joy to immerse ourselves in a world of fiction that speaks of the past and present, of women and men, of rural and urban identities, of humans and animals, of lives lived well and lives lived badly. While the writing we’ve encountered has been marked by audacity and wit, eccentricity and elegance, it has also reminded us of the extraordinary treasures to be found in contemporary Canadian literature."
"There’s always the danger, with novels structured around a marriage, that they’ll be perceived as centrally concerned not only with that particular relationship but with the nature of marriage itself. A domestic union set prominently in a work of fiction has the sometimes unfortunate capacity to obscure whatever else is going on. Yet “Fates and Furies,” Lauren Groff’s remarkable new novel, explodes and rages past any such preconceptions, insisting that the examination of a long-term relationship can be a perfect vehicle for exploring no less than the nature of existence — the domestic a doorway to the philosophical."
Read the full review here.
