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Winner Announced in Etgar Keret “Something out of Something” Art & Design Contest 

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Carl Phillips and Yusef Komunyakaa Named Finalists for the 2011 National Book Award

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Michael Sandel Relaunches His Popular Justice Site

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Read Mary Anne Weaver's Biography of Osama bin Laden from Pakistan

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Seamus Heaney Wins Irish Times Award

Congratulations to Seamus Heaney, who has won the Irish Times Poetry Award for Human Chain (2010). Heaney also won the award in 2006 for District and Circle, his previous collection. You can read the full article here, and read selections from Human Chain on Scribd.

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Freedom, The Possessed, Skippy Dies, and Comedy in a Minor Key Named NBCC Award Finalists

We are pleased to announce novels by Jonathan Franzen (Freedom), Paul Murray (Skippy Dies), and Hans Keilson (Comedy in a Minor Key) were named National Book Critics Circle Award finalists in the fiction category, and Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them a finalist in criticism. You can read the full details here.

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Jonathan Franzen Visits Oprah

On December 6th, Jonathan Franzen will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the Book Club pick for Freedom. Check your local listings for show times.

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Edmund de Waal and Paul Murray Shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Award

We are pleased to announce de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes and Murray's Skippy Dies have both been shortlisted for this year's Coast  Book Award, in the biography and novel categories, respectively.

The Costa Book Awards recognize the most enjoyable books in five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - published in the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. Click here for the complete shortlist.

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Elif Batuman, Author of The Possessed, Wins a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award

We are pleased to announce Elif Batuman has won this year's Whiting Writers' Award. The awards, which are now set at $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career.

The program has awarded more than $6 million to 260 poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights. Among the past recipients who have gone on to achieve acclaim and prominence in their field are Jonathan Franzen, Sarah Ruhl, Michael Cunningham, Cristina Garcia, Justin Cronin, Luc Sante, Geoffrey O’Brien, Allegra Goodman, Andre Aciman, Nell Freudenberger, Howard Norman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Mark Doty, Franz Wright, and Colson Whitehead.

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Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

We are thrilled to announce that Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 
The Peruvian writer was cited by the Swedish Academy for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.”
 
The academy's permanent secretary, Peter Englund, said Vargas Llosa "is a divinely gifted story-teller," whose writing touches the reader. "He is one of the big authors in the Spanish-speaking world," Englund said. He said that Vargas Llosa was in New York on Thursday when was told by telephone that he had won the prize. "He was very, very happy" Englund said. "And very moved."
 
For more information, please visit http://nobelprize.org/.

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Oprah Selects Franzen's Freedom for Her Book Club

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Galchen Wins Saroyan Prize for Fiction

We are pleased to announce that Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances has won the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in the fiction category. Additionally, Maryalice Huggins’ Aesop's Mirror (Sarah Crichton Books / FSG) is a finalist for the prize in the nonfiction category.

Intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan literary legacy of originality, vitality and stylistic innovation, the Saroyan Prize recognizes newly published works of both fiction and non-fiction.

For more information and a complete list of winners and finalists please visit Stanford's site.

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Jonathan Franzen Featured in Time Cover Story

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Launch Work in Progress

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Wells Tower Wins NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award

We are pleased to announce that Wells Tower has won The New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award for Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Tower was presented with the award by Library President Paul LeClerc. 

Ethan Hawke, one of the founders of the award, emceed the program, and actors Josh Hamilton, Emily Mortimer, Alessandro Nivola, and Mark Ruffalo read excerpts from each of the finalists’ works. The four other finalists for the award were C. E. Morgan (All the Living), Jedediah Berry (The Manual of Detection), Katie Kitamura (The Longshot), and Philipp Meyer (American Rust).

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David Finkel's The Good Soldiers Wins the NYPL Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism

We are pleased to announce that David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG) has won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. The award was presented May 17th by Library President Paul LeClerc, Selection Committee Chair James F. Hoge, and Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown.

Hoge said the following of the book: “Finkel, a Pulitzer-prize winning correspondent for The Washington Post set out to answer two questions: what was the true story of the surge, and was it a success? Other questions arose form his reporting. How, for example, does a lieutenant colonel in charge motivate soldiers when they begin to doubt the cause for which they are risking their lives? Did they make a positive difference? In short, were they still good soldiers? Finkel ultimately leaves the answers to the readers, but not before he paints an unforgettable picture of combat and its effect on frontline soldiers. His depiction of warfare’s terror and his vivid soldier portraits are journalism of a high literary order. His art—and that is what it is—makes this book not just for the moment, but for the ages.”

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Robert Pinsky and Bruce Springsteen Discuss Poetry and Music

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Rivka Galchen, Victor Lodato, Maryalice Huggins, and Wells Tower Shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize

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PEN World Voices Festival Returns with Several FSG Authors

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Marilynne Robinson's Home Shortlisted for 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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Louise Glück Shortlisted for Giffin Poetry Prize

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Sea of Poppies novelist Amitav Ghosh Wins $1M Dan David Prize

Amitav Ghosh has won the Dan David Prize for Literature, a $1-million international prize for his contributions to modern literature. He will share the prize with Margaret Atwood.

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Journalist and Cartoonist Ted Rall Asks Readers to Help Send Him to Afghanistan

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Petina Gappah, Wells Tower, and Michelle Huneven 2009 Finalists for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

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