Authors and Awards

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Dwight Garner profiles John le Carré in this weekend's NYT Magazine, saying he "is still writing at something close to the top of his game." On his May release A DELICATE TRUTH, Garner writes: "The book is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and a jangling ending. And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character."

Also in the magazine is an excerpt from Brian Stelter's TOP OF THE MORNING, which publishes next week.

Time magazine selects their annual list of "the 100 most influential people in the world." It includes two dedicated authors--Hilary Mantel and George Saunders--and one of the magazine covers features Little, Brown author-to-be Malala Yousafzai.

By Time's count the list includes 23 people who have written books (or have books on the way, such as Lena Dunham). Among the recently-published influentials are LEAN IN author Sheryl Sandberg and Jared Cohen (co-author of next week's THE NEW DIGITAL AGE with Eric Schmidt).

Harper UK would be delighted to publish a memoir from singer Adele, and the Mirror reported that the publisher rolled up a wheelbarrow of money but was turned away by her management. A source tells the paper, "her primary concern was that she doesn't want to write a book about just 24 years." Just in case, the publisher confirms to the Bookseller that they "would love to publish Adele, a fantastic global superstar with a brilliant story."

Coming later today--towards the end of the day--will be the Indies Choice award winners.

Want more awards shortlists? The UK is thick with them, including nominees for:

- The Walter Scott Prize (for historical fiction)

- The Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize

- The Orwell prize (for political writing)