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Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk win 2018 and 2019 Nobel Literature Prize

Oct 10 2019: The Swedish Academy announced this morning two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Peter Handke, the Austrian author, playwright and translator, wins the 2019 prize, and Olga Tokarczuk, the Polish novelist and poet, wins the 2018 prize, which was not bestowed ...

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2019 National Book Award finalists announced

Oct 09 2019: The twenty-five Finalists for the 2019 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature (YPL) were announced today. The five Finalists in each category were selected by a distinguished panel of literary experts, ...

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The global war on books, redux

Oct 03 2019: The New York Times has just published a powerful article on how governments across the globe are spending a remarkable amount of resources attacking books. Because this is an important article and many BookBrowse readers may be blocked from reading the full piece by ...

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Penguin Random House releases free The Whistle-Blower Complaint audiobook

Sep 27 2019: Penguin Random House Audio has released a free, 30-minute audio reading of The Whistle-Blower Complaint. It was recorded by Saskia Maarleveld, a professional audiobook narrator.

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Pew survey finds more adults listening to audiobooks

Sep 27 2019: A new report by the Pew Research Center has provided more documentation on the growing popularity of audiobooks.

In a survey of 1,502 American adults conducted from January 8 to February 7 this year, Pew found that 20% of adults listened to an audiobook in the 12 ...

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26 MacArthur Fellows announced, including 10 writers

Sep 26 2019: Twenty-six new MacArthur Fellows have been announced for 2019. Each will receive a $625,000 grant paid out over five years. According to the MacArthur Foundation each recipient has "shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked ...

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New York Times shifts its lists again

Sep 26 2019: The New York Times Book Review has announced a new slate of changes to its bestseller lists, both in print and online.

After cutting the mass market paperback and graphic novel/manga lists in 2017, the Times' Best Sellers team will again track mass market paperback ...

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US booksellers support #GlobalClimateStrike

Sep 23 2019: Indie booksellers across the U.S. supported last Friday's Global Climate Strike in many ways.

"No one can be certain that any of this will lead to change," Silver Unicorn owner Paul Swydan wrote. "But at our employee meeting on Tuesday, we decided that closing until ...

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