Tom Peters, best known as co-author of In Search of Excellence, will receive the fourth annual Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry, sponsored by 800-CEO-READ and recognizing "innovation within and impact on the genre."
"When you look at authors who established 'business books' as a significant genre within publishing, Tom Peters is the stand out," said Jack Covert who is the retired president and founder of 800-CEO-READ. "Tom's first book [In Search of Excellence] took business books from the dusty part of the bookstore to the window. It showed the industry that a well written, intelligent business book can sell, and it's never stopped selling. Tom's contribution to the genre has lasted well over three decades."
Peters has been a business consultant with McKinsey & Co. and founded Skunkworks Inc. and the Tom Peters Company. His 17th book, The Excellence Dividend, will be published in April by Vintage.
He will receive the award at the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards on January 18 in New York City.
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Nominees have been selected for the second annual Albertine Prize, a readers' choice award promoting French literature translated into English. The $10,000 prize is co-presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Van Cleef & Arpels. Readers can vote online through May 1.
The nominees are:
Compass by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell (New Directions)
Incest by Christine Angot, translated by Tess Lewis (Archipelago)
Not One Day by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan (Deep Vellum)
The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis, translated by Michael Lucey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson (New Press)