Sophia Stewart
editor of @the_millions / writing @theatlantic @lareviewofbooks etc
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publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart
The 10 winners of the 40th annual Whiting Awards, each of which comes with a $50,000 purse, were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9. The event featured a keynote by poet and novelist Ocean Vuong. In his keynote address, Vuong reflected on his own Whiting win in 2016.
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publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, organized by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, has announced the winners of its 19th awards program across eight categories. This year’s winners hail from seven countries around the world, including the U.K., Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Iraq, Morocco and the UAE. This year's awards received more than 4,000 submissions from 75 countries.
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2 weeks ago |
publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart |Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Banu Mushtaq
The six-book shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced. The £50,000 annual prize, split equally between author and translator, recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. and/or Ireland. The winner will be announced on May 20 at a ceremony at the Tate Modern in London.
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publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart
Jesse Kornbluth, author and cofounder of consumer book review website Bookreporter.com, died on April 3 in Manhattan following a battle with Lewy body dementia. He was 79. Kornbluth began his career as a writer at Vanity Fair, the New York Times magazine, and New York magazine, among other outlets, and became known in the 1970s and ’80s as a prolific profiler of such subjects as Tom Cruise, Faye Dunaway, and Norah Ephron.
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publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart
Random House Publishing Group associate design director Virginia Norey, who created the enduring interior house styles for such authors as Diana Gabaldon and George R.R. Martin, died on March 28 after a brief battle with gastric cancer. She was 68. Norey’s publishing career began at Penguin Books in 1997, where her redesign of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare won her the first of five New York Book Show awards.
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a reminder that i love writing about books, art, and culture and would always love to do more of it—drop me a line anytime at sophiastewart75 at gmail dot com !
i wrote about the irrepressible mary cassatt for @hyperallergic https://t.co/7c6R2B6GDC
i wrote about michelle de kretser's scary smart THEORY & PRACTICE—an early contender for my favorite book of the year—over at @theatlantic https://t.co/JdQfjEhhcv
