Search Results by tag: Orange Prize for Fiction

Daily book biz round-up: iPad security breach; on reading New Yorker fiction; and more

Book news pour vous: Early iPad adopters exposed to massive security breach Barbara Kingsolver wins Orange Prize Atwood to headline Frye Festival in 2011 Only female candidate for Oxford professor of poetry position withdraws from ... Read More »

June 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: Lionel Shriver lets it rip; 25 iconic book covers; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Lots to peruse today: The New York Observer posts an excellent article about outgoing S&S publisher David Rosenthal Lionel Shriver slams Orange Prize organizers, Bret Easton Ellis, and publishing in general Apparently, teenagers like Anne ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: evil mobsters, filthy librarians, and more

By Scott MacDonald

Your assortment of book news tidbits: Victoria booksellers told to be on lookout for ex-mobster Moore, Mantel make Orange Prize shortlist Hearty French and Dutch manage to make it to the LBF; Americans, Italians, and ... Read More »

April 20, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up, March 18

By Scott MacDonald

What's the buzz? What's a happenin'? Here's what's a happenin': Having had its butt kicked by the major publishers, Amazon starts beating up on the weaker kids Harper government flip-flops on funding for Internet access ... Read More »

March 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Bookmarks (negation editon): the book collector who couldn’t read, the bestselling author who doesn’t exist, and the book prize judge who quit

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: 79-year-old book collector finally learns to read (Houston Chronicle) A bestselling novel by a soap opera character (The New York Times) Lily Allen drops out of Orange Prize jury (BBC) The (Stephen) ... Read More »

April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Moore, Lansens have eyes on Orange prize

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two Canadian authors have made the longlist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (the award formerly known as the Orange Prize). Among the 20 contenders are Lori Lansens' The Girls (published by Knopf Canada ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Orange Prize: there's good news and bad news

By Alison Jones

An article for the Independent discusses the recently announced longlist for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, a prize for women writers, and the overall disappointment that this year's chair, Muriel Gray, feels about the books ... Read More »

March 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

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