Finalists have been announced for the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards, which showcase 50 works and this year feature four new prizes. Nearly $315,000 will be awarded altogether to writers and translators, spanning the fields of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, translation and more. View the complete shortlists here.
Winners will be named February 22, with the exception of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. These will be announced March 27 during a ceremony at the New School in Manhattan.
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The shortlist of the Australian Indie Book Awards, chosen by independent bookstores, has been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, debut fiction, children's and young adult and can be seen here. Winners will be unveiled March 20.
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A shortlist has been announced for the £5,000 (about $6,140) Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with the Authors' Club, the Bookseller reported. In addition to the cash prize, the winner receives an antique globe, to be presented at the awards ceremony February 2. The shortlisted titles are:
Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation by Julian Sayarer
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
Station to Station by James Attlee
The Hills of Wales by Jim Perrin
Squirrel Pie (and Other Stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe by Elisabeth Luard
White Sands By Geoff Dyer