Scott Turow has won the Paretsky Award, given during the Murder and Mayhem conference in Chicago last weekend and honoring "mysteries set in the Midwest." He is the author of 11 novels, including Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty and Personal Injuries, as well One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. He is also former president of the Authors Guild.
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For the first time, a longlist has been announced for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, which is awarded annually to a "book of the highest literary merit--fiction, nonfiction or poetry--which best evokes the spirit of a place." The shortlist will be unveiled April 16 and a winner named May 13. The 2019 RSL Ondaatje Prize longlisted titles are:
No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid
Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
Little by Edward Carey
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
The Wife's Tale by Aida Edemariam
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
Where the Road Runs Out by Gaia Holmes
The Café de Move-on Blues by Christopher Hope
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly
Arkady by Patrick Langley
A Line in the River by Jamal Mahjoub
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Let Me Be Like Water by S.K. Perry
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka
The Crossway by Guy Stagg
The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack
Wilding by Isabella Tree
Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth