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‘AudioFile’ Magazine Announces 2025 Golden Voice Award Winners
AudioFile has named the three winners of its annual Golden Voice awards, which honors voice actors who have made significant contributions to audiobook publishing. The recipients are Hillary Huber, Vikas Adam, and Kimberly Farr.
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‘Heart Lamp’ Wins 2025 International Booker Prize
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi and published by And Other Stories, is the first short story collection and first book originally written in Kannada to win the £50,000 prize, which is split equally between the author and translator.
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Macmillan CEO Jon Yaged: Censorship ‘Puts Us On a Path to Mediocrity’
At this year’s PEN America Literary Gala, Macmillan Publishers CEO Jon Yaged, the recipient of PEN’s annual Business Visionary Award, took aim at the efforts to censor free expression that have increasingly defined American culture over the past several years.
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PEN America Literary Awards Return After a Tumultuous Year
While it was largely business as usual following the cancelation of last year’s ceremony, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award was not conferred for a second year in a row due to nominee withdrawals. The $75,000 purse was donated to the nonprofits Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Palestine Legal.
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Percival Everett, Tessa Hulls Among 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Everett’s novel ‘James’ and Hulls’s graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’ were among the seven books to receive this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced May 5.
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Emerging Authors and Genre Legends Honored at 79th Edgar Awards
At the 79th Edgar Awards, held May 1 in Manhattan, the Mystery Writers of America honored the work of Laura Lippman and John Sandford and named Charlotte Vassell’s The In Crowd as the year’s best novel.
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Jiaming Tang, Blas Falconer Among 2025 Publishing Triangle Award Winners
The winners of the 37th annual Triangle Awards, which honor the year’s best LGBTQ literature published in 2024, were honored at a celebration held at the New School in New York City on April 17.
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2025 Whiting Awards Recognize 10 Emerging Writers
The awards—which since 1985 have bestowed more than $10 million on early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama—were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9.
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2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners Hail from Seven Countries
Haruki Murakami and Hoda Barakat are among the winners of the 19th Sheikh Zayed Book Awards, which are awarded in eight categories and honor excellence in Arab-language publishing.
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2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
This year’s six-book International Booker Prize shortlist comprises five novels and one short story collection translated from five languages. The winner will be revealed at a ceremony in London on May 20.
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