PublishersLunch
The UK's Bookseller Industry Awards were handed
out Monday night in London. Among the honorees:
Publisher: Harper Collins UK
Independent Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Children's Publisher: Usborne
Imprint and Editor: Harvill Secker; Liz Foley
Agent: Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown UK
Rights Professional: Andy Hine, Little Brown UK
National Bookseller: Foyles
Children's Bookseller: Foyles
Pulitzer biographer James McGrath Morris
was elected as president of Biographers International Organization; Brian Jay Jones, who
is completing a biography of Jim Henson, was chosen as vice president.
Karen Russell has
won the New York Public Library's Young
Lions Award for her novel SWAMPLANDIA!, receiving a $10,000
prize.
Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has
won the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel BLOOMS OF
DARKNESS.
The Lambda Literary Foundation's 2012 Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist
Prize has recognizes Stacey D'Erasmo (A Seahorse Year) and
Brian Leung (Take Me Home).
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