News: FSG Adult

We are thrilled to announce two FSG poets have been named finalists for this year's National Book Award: Carl Phillips for Double Shadow and Yusef Komunyakaa for The Chameleon Couch. Phillps has been named a finalist three times before; Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. You can read the full list of finalists here. More…

Mary Anne Weaver writes, "After reporting from Pakistan for more than twenty years, one of the most incredulous aspects of Osama bin Laden’s final years was: how could he have lived in an acre-large, million dollar compound in the Pakistani Army town of Abbottabad, without the knowledge of the Pakistani military, especially its omnipotent intelligence organization, the ISI? Was he hiding in plain sight, or not hiding at all, in this leafy hill station, only 50 miles from the capital Islamabad; less than a mile from Pakistan’s Kakul Military Academy – the country’s West Point; and within walking distance of a division of Pakistan’s Northern Command? If you chart a timeline, it is, in a sense, almost Aristotelian how interconnected the life of Osama bin Laden with the ISI was." Read "The Rise of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan as a PDF on on Scribd. More…

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.

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.

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/.

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.

Featuring an interview with Jeffrey Eugenides on his next book, a look into our Susan Sontag archives, and more, FSG announces a new online project called Work in Progress. With new content delivered monthly via email and on its own site, readers can expect articles by our writers and editors on a wide range of topics (and a giveaway or two). More…

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.”

Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Picador are proud to announce we have several books in the running for the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. In the nonfiction category, Maryalice Huggins' Aesop's Mirror (Sarah Crichton Books); and in fiction, Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen, Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato, and Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower. The prize is intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan literary legacy of originality, vitality, and stylistic innovation. Winners will be announced this summer. More…

We are thrilled to announce Robinson's third novel Home has made the shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Award. The shortlist of 8 titles was selected from a total of 156 novels nominated by 163 public library systems in 123 cities worldwide. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the world’s most prestigious literary prize nominated by public libraries all over the globe. Full information here. More…

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.

We're excited to announce that three Farrar, Straus and Giroux books have been named as finalists for the Los Angeles Times 2009 Book Prize: Blame (Sarah Crichton Books), by Michelle Huneven in the fiction category; and, for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, An Elegy for Easterly (Faber & Faber) by Petina Gappah and Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower. You can read the full list of finalists here. More…