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Winners of the First Annual Nero Awards

Jan 30 2024: The winners of the first annual Nero Awards have been announced in four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Debut Fiction and Children's Book. Established as a not-for-profit organization, the Nero Book Awards are run by the independent, family-owned coffee house group, ...

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N Scott Momaday, Pulitzer-winning Native American novelist, dies aged 89

Jan 29 2024: N Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel House Made of Dawn is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89.

Momaday died on Wednesday at his home ...

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2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announced

Jan 25 2024: The National Book Critics Circle has announced 30 finalists in six categories—autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, general nonfiction, and poetry—for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which recognizes books from the publishing year 2023.

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How many books will you read before you die?

Jan 25 2024: From The Economist: "Our back-of-the-envelope calculations show how many books you can still hope to read—and how to make time for the best ones.

We started by asking 1,500 Americans about their reading habits with help from YouGov, a pollster. Only 54% of ...

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Zooniverse Launches Lives of Literary Characters Project

Jan 24 2024: Zooniverse has announced the launch of The Lives of Literary Characters. Volunteers will assist Zooniverse by annotating stories to better understand the complex lives of fictional characters.

Zooniverse writes:

"The proliferation of stories today is astounding. ...

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ALA announces 2024 Youth Media Award winners

Jan 22 2024: The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards.

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David Baldacci Selected as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion.

Jan 19 2024: Author and philanthropist David Baldacci has been selected as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion. This annual commendation recognizes a lifetime of devoted literary advocacy and a commitment to inspiring new generations of readers and writers.

“David Baldacci, ...

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A Big Win in the Texas Book Rating Law Case

Jan 19 2024: In a major victory for freedom to read advocates, the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals on January 17 upheld a lower court decision to block key provisions of HB 900, Texas’s controversial book rating law, finding that the law likely violated First Amendment ...

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