A longlist has been released for the €100,000 (about $104,415) Dublin Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council to honor a single work of fiction published in English. Libraries from 34 countries around the world nominated 71 titles. If the winning book has been translated, the author receives €75,000 (about $78,310) and the translator €25,000 (about $26,105).
The shortlist will be announced March 25 and the winner named May 22, as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. Check out the complete International Dublin Literary Award longlist here.
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Winners have been selected for the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries and recognizing "books for children and teens that exemplify high literary standards while authentically portraying the Jewish experience."
Winning authors and illustrators will receive their awards at the Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries, to be held online from June 23-26.
Gold Medalists:
Picture Book: An Etrog from Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen (Kar-Ben Publishing).
Middle Grade: The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel with Sammy Savos and Bethany Strout, illustrated by Sammy Savos (Roaring Brook Press)
Young Adult: Night Owls by A.R. Vishny (Harper)
See the nine Silver Medalists and eight Notable books here.