#bookprizes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bookprizes, aggregated by home.social.
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📚✨ Ah, the classic "I don't understand technology, so it must be bad" rant, brought to you by the literary legend herself! Ursula K. Le Guin: proving once again that you can win book prizes without ever needing to set the clock on a VCR. 🙄👏
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology #UrsulaKLeGuin #TechCritique #LiteraryLegend #BookPrizes #ClassicRant #HackerNews #ngated -
📚✨ Behold: an index of book prizes so labyrinthine it makes the Dewey Decimal System look like a children's pop-up book. It's a veritable #cornucopia of #data nobody asked for, complete with a beg-a-thon for donations. 🤪💸
https://book-prize-index.vercel.app #bookprizes #labyrinth #donationrequest #HackerNews #ngated -
Scotland: Shortlist Announced for the Highland Book Prize; Publishing Scotland Seeks Applications for Translation Fund
The Highland Book Prize winner will be announced at the end of the month, while international publishers seeking financial support to translate Scottish writers have until August 28 to apply.
The post Scotland: Shortlist Announced for the Highland Book Prize; Publishing Scotland Seeks Applications for Translation Fund appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/scotland-shortlist-announced-for-the-highland-book-prize-publishing-scotland-seeks-applications-for-translation-fund/#Awards #BookPrizes #BooksinTranslation #HighlandBookPrize #PublishingScotland
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Jaipur Literature Festival, Tech Mahindra Partner to Launch the Global India Book Prize
In a release, organizers said the prize will be open to international authors and will recognize books that shape “meaningful conversations about India’s evolving role in the world.”
The post Jaipur Literature Festival, Tech Mahindra Partner to Launch the Global India Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/jaipur-literature-festival-tech-mahindra-partner-to-launch-the-global-india-book-prize/#BookPrizes #India #JaipurLiteratureFestival #TechMahindraGlobalIndiaBookPrize
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Julia Elliott Is the Winner of the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Named after Pulitzer-Prize winning American-Canadian author Carol Shields, the $150,000 prize is the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors.
The post Julia Elliott Is the Winner of the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/julia-elliott-is-the-winner-of-the-150000-carol-shields-prize-for-fiction/#BookPrizes #Canada #CarolShieldsPrizeforFiction #TinHouse #UnitedStates
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Algerian Writer Wins 2026 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Khatibi’s novel was selected from 137 submitted titles as the best novel published in Arabic between July 2024 and June 2025.
The post Algerian Writer Wins 2026 International Prize for Arabic Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/algerian-writer-wins-2026-international-prize-for-arabic-fiction/#AbuDhabi #AdultFiction #Algeria #BookPrizes #InternationalPrizeforArabicPrize
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John Vailliant wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with Fire Weather, a look at the wildfires that struck Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/16/john-vailliant-wins-baillie-gifford-nonfiction-prize-with-highly-relevant-work-on-wildfires #books #reading #bookprizes #canada #climatechange
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An #introduction from us at the #WalterScottPrize for #HistoricalFiction. It's one of the world's most prestigious #literaryprizes and in its fourteen years has awarded over £300,000 to writers and brought over 150 great #historical novels to wider attention, including to #bookgroups. We also run the #YoungWalterScottPrize, a creative writing prize for those 11-19. We post about #bookprizes #history #writingtips and more. Say hello and tell us - what are you reading now, #histfic or otherwise?